Albert Camus was born on November 7, 1913, in Mondovi, Algeria. His French parents had settled in this North African French colony in 1871. Albert's father was self-educated and a laborer. He was killed fighting for France in World War I. Albert's mother was an illiterate woman with Spanish roots who worked as a cleaner. After her husband’s death, she moved her sons, Lucien and Albert, into her mother's apartment in a working-class neighborhood of Algiers. French-Algerian schools were excellent, and Camus did extremely well in his studies. He so revered Louis Germain, a devoted teacher who helped him win a scholarship to a prestigious high school (or lycée), that Camus dedicated his...
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