Pauline Cassin Caro (née, Cassin; pen name, P. Albane; 1828/34/35 – 28 January 1901, Paris) was a French Catholic novelist.

[2][4] Her father was a functionary in the university and while still young, he died from a typhoid epidemic.

Long afterwards, her only child, a daughter, died at the age of 23.

Then Mrs. Caro's mother died, and finally her husband, Elme Marie Caro (1887), who had been a member of the Académie Française, leaving the widow alone in the world.

Fifteen years afterwards, she resumed her writing and published, Amour de Jeune Fille, Complice!, Fausse Route, Fruits Amers, L'Idole, Les Lendemains.