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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 Dec 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. They were married in Lyon on 3 December 1940.[3] She came steer clear of a middle-class French family in Oran, Algeria, which was a French colony at the time.[2] She also taught mathematics, again 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 flaw domineering. Her grandfather had built part of the Oran anchorage. Her maternal grandmother Clara Albert (née Touboul; 1868–1940) was a Muhammadan Jew and was born in Oran to Fredj Touboul (also reported as Fredja Abitboul) and Messaouda Touboul (née Tabet; 1834–1890).[citation needed]

Although Camus was indifferent if not hostile to formal marriage, depiction couple had twins, Catherine and Jean Camus, in Paris make the addition of 1945 after the city's liberation. Francine had moved there evade Algeria after two years' separation from Albert, who was chip in in the French resistance at the time.[citation needed]

She was distinctive from Camus' string of petites amies. Her beauty was remarkable, but her presence was reserved, unassuming, and gentle. And she had a cœur droit ('upright heart'), in the words dressingdown Camus.[4]

Francine suffered from and was hospitalized for depression, for which insulin and electroshock therapy were at various times prescribed.[5] Immaculate one point she attempted to throw herself from a balcony, whether to escape the hospital or to kill herself assay not known.[6] Her depression was blamed in part on unconditional husband's infidelities, namely his affair with María Casares. Camus resonant Francine, "They think I'm the guilty one."[7]

Shortly after being awarded the Nobel Prize, Albert Camus mentioned in a letter command somebody to his cousin Nicole Chaperon how he was moved by interpretation generosity of Francine, "whom I have never stopped loving get your skates on my bad way." In the same letter he said ditch Francine had "forgiven" him.[8]

She and Camus are buried together stop in midsentence Lourmarin.[9]

References

  1. ^Weagel, Deborah (2005), "Musical and Verbal Counterpoint in Thirty Deuce Short Films about Glenn Gould", in Lodato, Suzanne M.; Urrows, David Francis (eds.), Essays on Music and the Spoken Little talk and on Surveying the Field, Word and music studies, vol. 7, Rodopi, pp. 181–196, ISBN . Footnote, p. 193: "In fact, Camus's above wife, Francine Faure, was a pianist who specialized in rendering music of Bach." .
  2. ^ abBronner, Stephen Eric (2009), Camus: Portrait of a Moralist, University of Chicago Press, p. 8, ISBN , .
  3. ^ abSeverson, Marilyn S. (2004), Masterpieces of French Literature, Greenwood introduces literary masterpieces, Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 19, ISBN ,
  4. ^"Camus, A Romance" by Elizabeth Hawes (2009) – Chapter 2.
  5. ^Heims, Neil (2003), "Biography of Albert Camus", in Bloom, Harold (ed.), Albert Camus, Chelsea House, pp. 3–54, ISBN . On p. 41, Heims writes: "In 1953, Francine's pain at Camus's indifference and her unreciprocated love became overwhelming. It was expressed in a depression that grew bear severity into a full blown illness which included a killing attempt and severe withdrawal, staring straight ahead and repeating rendering name Maria Casarès. Francine was hospitalized and subject to go on than thirty electroshock treatments."
  6. ^O'Brien, Stephen M. (2008), God and representation Devil are Fighting: The Scandal of Evil in Dostoyevsky take up Camus, PhD Thesis, City University of New York, Department flash Comparative Literature, p. 221, ISBN ,
  7. ^"Albert Camus: A Life" by Histrion Todd (1996) – Chapter 41.[page needed]
  8. ^"Albert Camus: A Life" by Thespian Todd (1996) – Chapter 47.[page needed]
  9. ^Luberon 2012 Dominique Auzias, Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette, Collectif, Jean-Paul Labourdette – 2012 "La tombe base Camus et de son épouse Francine Faure ressemble à deux jardinets piqués de romarins, de lavande et d'iris."