We provide a complete translation of Victor and Catherine Henri’s pioneering 1897 paper on the earliest memories of childhood. Victor Henri (1872-1940) was Binet’s first collaborator. In 1892, he began experimental work on memory at the psychology laboratory at the Sorbonne. Interested in the localization of tactile sensations, he went to Leipzig (1894-1896) to work at Wundt’s laboratory and in April 1896 joined Müller’s laboratory at Göttingen University, where he submitted a thesis on this subject (1897). During his long stay in Germany, Victor Henri was in contact with Binet, who associated him with his individual psychology program (1896). It was in the context of the development of this program that Victor and his wife Catherine Henri published in L’Année Psychologique the famous results of their questionnaire on the earliest memories of childhood (1897), which inspired Freud. However, although Freud suggested that infantile amnesia continued until the age of six or eight years, other studies confirmed the Henris results, since the average age of the earliest memories identified appears to be three years.