Francine Faure

Her mother, Marie-Fernande Charlotte "Fernande" Faure (née Albert), was considered by Camus biographer Olivier Todd to be domineering.

Francine had moved there from Algeria after two years' separation from Albert, who was participating in the French resistance at the time.

[4] Francine suffered from and was hospitalized for depression, for which insulin and electroshock therapy were at various times prescribed.

[6] Her depression was blamed in part on her husband's infidelities, namely his affair with María Casares.

"[7] Shortly after being awarded the Nobel Prize, Albert Camus mentioned in a letter to his cousin Nicole Chaperon how he was moved by the generosity of Francine, "whom I have never stopped loving in my bad way."