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Albert Camus and his wife, the mathematician, Francine Faure

In 1948, Stephen Spender wrote for the Book Review about Albert Camus’s “The Plague,” a novel about an epidemic spreading across the French Algerian city of Oran.

Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) never forgot Louis Germaine, the teacher who saw potential in the child raised in destitution by his illiterate mother Catherine – she was the family’s main provider following the death of Albert’s father Lucien at the Battle of Marne (6–10 September 1914) in World War 1. In 1957 … Continue reading "Albert Camus’s Stirring Letter To His Inspirational Teacher After Winning The Nobel Prize"