Abstract
Autobiography in the twentieth century is enjoying an unprecedented vogue. People in almost every walk of life — from military commanders and politicians to film stars and prostitutes — seem to feel at some stage in their lives the need to commit their personal recollections to paper. This has not always been so. In earlier times autobiography occupied a relatively small space in the literary output. Caesar, St Augustine, Joinville, Cellini, Saint-Simon and Rousseau are among the relatively few distinguished names of early autobiographers that spring readily to mind. But there were others who made a smaller impression on posterity, including a group of French soldiers of the sixteenth century. All of them belonged to the nobility.
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Knecht, R.J. (1989). Military Autobiographies in Sixteenth-Century France. In: Mulryne, J.R., Shewring, M. (eds) War, Literature and the Arts in Sixteenth-Century Europe. Warwick Studies in the European Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19734-7_1
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