[1] In the centre of Algiers, beside the university, the intersection of streets bearing the names of several other heroes of the Algerian Revolution is called the Place Maurice-Audin.

[3] He is the son of Louis Audin (1900–1977) and Alphonsine Fort (1902–1989), who married in 1923 in Koléa (Algeria); they both came from modest families, he from Lyon workers, she from peasants from the Mitidja.

[4] Son of a soldier, Maurice Audin became an Enfant de troupe [fr] and, in 1942, entered the sixth grade at the preparatory military school of Hammam Righa.

The Audin family took part in certain illegal operations: in September 1956, Maurice together with his sister (Charlye, born in 1925) and his brother-in-law (Christian Buono), organized the clandestine exfiltration abroad of Larbi Bouhali, first secretary of PCA.

Also General Massu put forward an assessment of the losses of the Zone autonome d'Alger [fr] in nine months of "less than a thousand men, and very probably the relatively low number of three hundred killed”.

[8] During the Battle of Algiers, Maurice Audin was arrested at his home on 11 June 1957 by Captain Devis, Lieutenant Philippe Erulin and several soldiers of the 1er régiment de chasseurs parachutistes (1e RCP) of the French Army.

Doctor Georges Hadjadj later admitted that, under torture, he had given Audin's name to men working for Paul Aussaresses, following threats that his wife would be raped.

[9] By July 1957, some newspapers started to discuss "the Audin affair" and, on 2 December 1957, the defence in absentia of his doctoral thesis, On linear equations in a vector space, chaired by Laurent Schwartz, aroused indignation among certain academics against the situation in Algeria.

The body of Maurice Audin not having been found, a death certificate was issued by a court in Algiers on 1 June 1963, a judgment which was recognized in France on 27 May 1966.