Francine Faure

Francine Faure (6 December 1914 – 24 December 1979) was a French pianist specializing in Bach. She was also a mathematician. She was the second wife of Albert Camus, whom she met in 1937 in Algiers. They were married in Lyon on 3 December 1940. She came from a middle-class French family in Oran, Algeria, which was a French colony at the time.

Francine suffered from and was hospitalized for depression, for which insulin and electroshock therapy were at various times prescribed. At one point she attempted to throw herself from a balcony, whether to escape the hospital or to kill herself is not known. Her depression was blamed in part on her husband's infidelities, namely his affair with María Casares. Camus told Francine, "They think I'm the guilty one."

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." In the same letter he said that Francine had "forgiven" him.

She and Camus are buried together in Lourmarin.