Yourcenar, Marguerite, translated from French by Maria Louise Ascher, — Dear Departed: a memoir.

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1991). 1st ed thus. G in G DJ ex-library. 1st published in 1974 under title Souvenirs Pieux, less a chronicle of her life than an inquiry into time, change & past. The history of a family is a window into the history of Europe: the author's forebears are shown in the context of their times.