Eat Pray Love is based on Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir.
In her travels, she discovers the true pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy, enjoying pastas and gelato for four months
Until the Age of Enlightenment encompassing the 17th and 18th centuries, works of memoir were written by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury; Franois de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac of France; and Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, who wrote Memoirs at his family's home at the castle of La Fert-Vidame

