Bronner, Stephen Eric (2009), Camus: Portrait of a Moralist, University of Chicago Press, p. 8, ISBN9780226075679, «Francine Faure, a pretty if physically delicate mathematician from a provincial middle-class family in Oran»..
Severson, Marilyn S. (2004), Masterpieces of French Literature, Greenwood introduces literary masterpieces, Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 19, ISBN9780313314841, «Francine Faure arrived in Lyon in December 1940, and she and Camus were married there on December 3. ... The couple returned to Oran in January 1941 where [...] his wife found some work as a substitute teacher.».
O'Brien, Stephen M. (2008), God and the Devil are Fighting: The Scandal of Evil in Dostoyevsky and Camus, Ph.D. Thesis, City University of New York, Department of Comparative Literature, p. 221, ISBN9780549611370, «Camus's second wife may have attempted suicide on two occasions by jumping, in one case from a balcony in Oran, in another instance from the second floor of the Sainte-Mandé psychiatric hospital in which she was being treated for depression. It is reasonable to think that these suicide attempts were related, at least partially, to the humiliation and disorientation that Francine may have felt because of Camus' open marital infidelity.».