Volume 1: Preface; 1. La Côte St. André; 2. My father; 3. Meylan; 4. First music lessons from my father; 5. A year of medical studies; 6. I become one of Lesueur's pupils; 7. A first opera; 8. Augustin de Pons; 9. First interview with Cherubini; 10. My father withdraws my allowance; 11. I return to Paris; 12. I compete for a place as chorus singer, and get it; 13. First composition for the orchestra; 14. Competition at the Conservatoire; 15. Evenings at the Opéra; 16. Weber at the Odéon; 17. Prejudice against operas with Italian words; 18. Shakespeare; 19. A futile concert; 20. Beethoven at the Conservatoire; 21. Fatality; 22. The competition for musical composition; 23. The Academy porter; 24. Miss Smithson again; 25. My third trial at the Conservatoire; 26. I read Goethe's Faust for the first time; 27. Fantasia on The Tempest; 28. A violent distraction; 29. Fourth competition at the Conservatoire; 30. Distribution of prizes at the Conservatoire; 31. My second concert; 32. Marseilles to Leghorn; 33. The scholars of the Academy; 34. Drama; 35. The theatres at Genoa and Florence; 36. Life at the Academy; 37. Sport in the mountains; 38. Subiaco; 39. Life of a musician in Rome; 40. The spleen; 41. Naples; 42. Influenza in Rome; 43. Florence; 44. The Censorship; 45. Benefit and concert at the Théâtre Italien; 46. An order for a requiem; 47. Performance of my Lacrymosa at Lille; 48. Mdlle. Bertin's Esmeralda; 49. Concert of December 16, 1838; 50. Order from M. de Rémusat to write the Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale; 51. Brussels. Volume 2: Part I. First Visit to Germany (1841–2): 52. Brussels; 53. Stuttgart–Hechingen; 54. Mannheim–Weimar; 55. Leipzig; 56. Dresden; 57. Brunswick–Hamburg; 58. Berlin; 59. Berlin; 60. Berlin; 61. Hanover–Darmstadt; 62. I get up Freyschütz for the Opéra; 63. The horrors of Feuilleton writing; Part II. Second Visit to Germany (Austria–Bohemia–Hungary): 64. Vienna; 65. Vienna; 66. Pesth; 67. Prague; 68. Prague; 69. Prague; 70. Concert at Breslau; Part III. Russian Journey: 71. A musical courier; 72. Return to St. Petersburg; 73. My return; 74. Roqueplan and Duponchel, directors of the Opéra; 75. My father's death; 76. Death of my sister; Postscript; Supplement; The last chapter of all; Appendix.
