Francine Faure

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. 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]

  1. ^ Weagel, Deborah (2005), "Musical and Verbal Counterpoint in Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould", in Lodato, Suzanne M.; Urrows, David Francis (eds.), Essays on Music and the Spoken Word and on Surveying the Field, Word and music studies, vol. 7, Rodopi, pp. 181–196, ISBN 9789042018976. Footnote, p. 193: "In fact, Camus's second wife, Francine Faure, was a pianist who specialized in the music of Bach." .
  2. ^ a b Bronner, Stephen Eric (2009), Camus: Portrait of a Moralist, University of Chicago Press, p. 8, ISBN 9780226075679, Francine Faure, a pretty if physically delicate mathematician from a provincial middle-class family in Oran.
  3. ^ a b Severson, Marilyn S. (2004), Masterpieces of French Literature, Greenwood introduces literary masterpieces, Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 19, ISBN 9780313314841, Francine Faure arrived in Lyon in December 1940, and she and Camus were married there on December 3. ... The couple returned to Oran in January 1941 where [...] his wife found some work as a substitute teacher.