{{short description|1966 novel by Jean Renoir}} {{Infobox book | name = The Notebooks of Captain Georges | image = File:The_Notebooks_of_Captain_Georges.jpg | image_size = | border = | alt = | caption = | author = [[Jean Renoir]] | title_orig = Les Cahiers du Capitaine Georges | orig_lang_code = de | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = France | language = French | subject = | genre = | publisher = [[Éditions Gallimard]] | pub_date = 23 February 1966 | english_pub_date = 19 October 1966 | media_type = | pages = 328 | isbn = }} '''''The Notebooks of Captain Georges: Memories of Love and Warfare 1894–1945''''' ({{langx|fr|Les Cahiers du Capitaine Georges. Souvenirs d'amour et de guerre, 1894–1945}}) is a 1966 novel by the French writer [[Jean Renoir]]. It follows the life, especially lovelife, of an upper-class Frenchman who serves in the [[World War I|First]] and [[World War II|Second World Wars]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Durgnat |first=Raymond |year=2023 |chapter=60. Les Cahiers du Capitaine Georges (The Notebooks of Captain Georges) |title=Jean Renoir |location=Berkeley |publisher=University of California Press |pages=373–378 |doi=10.1525/9780520332669-060 |isbn=978-0-520-33266-9 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/jean-renoir-4/the-notebooks-of-captain-georges/ |title=The Notebooks of Captain Georges |newspaper=[[Kirkus Reviews]] |date=1 October 1966 |access-date=27 April 2025 }}</ref>

Renoir had been a famous film director and screenwriter since the 1920s. ''The Notebooks of Captain Georges'' was the first of four novels he wrote when he was unable to get funding or in too poor health to direct films.<ref>{{cite book |last=Davis |first=Colin |year=2012 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FSjbZLbucHgC&pg=PA100 |title=Postwar Renoir: Film and the Memory of Violence |location= |publisher=Routledge |pages=100–103 |isbn=978-0-415-80697-8 }}</ref>

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==External links== * [https://www.gallimard.fr/catalogue/les-cahiers-du-capitaine-georges/9782070254033 Gallimard]

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