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Francine Faure
French mathematician, teacher, pianist, and second wife of Albert Camus
Francine Faure (6 December 1914 in Oran, Algeria – 24 December 1979) was a French pianist specializing in Bach.[1] She was also a mathematician.[2] She was the second wife of Albert Camus, whom she met in 1937 in Algiers.
Albert camus new biography wikipedia
They were married in Lyon on 3 December 1940.[3] She came from a middle-class French family in Oran, Algeria, which was a French colony at the time.[2] She also taught mathematics, sometimes as a substitute teacher.[3]
Personal life
Francine's father Fernand Martial François Faure died in World War I, at the Marne, where Camus' father had also died.
Her mother, Marie-Fernande Charlotte "Fernande" Faure (née Albert), was considered by Camus biographer Olivier Todd to be domineering. Her grandfather had built part of the Oran harbour. Her maternal grandmother Clara Albert (née Touboul; 1868–1940) was a Berber Jew