The mime Marceau, born March 22, 1923, died in 2007, at the age of 84.
Entitled "History of my life (from 1923 until 1952)", this book recounting his youthful years will be accompanied by 150 documents, "letters, photos, drawings, personal notebooks", specified the publisher.
The edition of this autobiography was supervised by two daughters of the mime, Aurélia and Camille Marceau, who signed a preface, a biographical chronology and the appendices.
"A few years before his death, Marcel Marceau entrusts his children with a manuscript in which he recounts his life, from his happy childhood in Strasbourg to 1952", explained Actes Sud.
These first thirty years of a son of Polish Jewish immigrants, born Marcel Mangel, were marked by the rise of anti-Semitism in France, the death of the father in the Auschwitz extermination camp and the commitment to the Resistance. .
"He will manage, among other things, to save Jewish children by bringing them to Switzerland. This art of silence - as he will define it himself - is therefore born of necessity. His name of resistant will remain his artist name" , recalled Actes Sud.
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