Associations to the word «Memoir»

Wiktionary

MEMOIR, noun. An autobiography; a book describing the personal experiences of an author.
MEMOIR, noun. A biography; a book describing the experiences of a subject from personal knowledge of the subject or from sources with personal knowledge of the subject.
MEMOIR, noun. Any form of narrative describing the personal experiences of a writer.

Dictionary definition

MEMOIR, noun. An account of the author's personal experiences.
MEMOIR, noun. An essay on a scientific or scholarly topic.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin