The album was found in 1924 by Faure's son, and published in the French literary journal Les Cahiers du Mois.
[3] Other historical figures who have answered confession albums are Oscar Wilde, Karl Marx, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Cézanne, Martin Boucher and Enzo Kehl.
Inspired by Bernard Pivot, James Lipton, the host of the TV program Inside the Actors Studio, used a similar questionnaire.
In October 2009, Vanity Fair launched an interactive version of the questionnaire, that compares individual answers to those of various luminaries.
The second, from 1891 or 1892, is from a French album, Les confidences de salon ("Drawing room confessions"), which contains translations of the original questions, lacking some that were in the English version and adding others.