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French essayist, writer, and playwright Albert Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria, into a family of Lucien Camus, a rural worker of Alsatian origin who died in the Battle of the Marne during World War I when Albert was less than a year old. Shortly after, his mother, Catherine Sintes, a semi-illiterate woman of Spanish descent, suffered a stroke that left her partially mute. The Camus family moved to Algeria to live with Albert's grandmother and disabled uncle, and Catherine had to work as a maid to support the family. Despite a difficult childhood, Albert did not withdraw into himself; he was fascinated by the incredible beauty of the North African coast, which contrasted with the ha

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