Pauline Cassin Caro
French novelist
Pauline Cassin Caro (née Cassin; pen name, P. Albane; 1828/34/35 – 28 January 1901) was a French Catholic novelist. She wrote under her own name and using the pseudonym, "P. Albane". Caro died in 1901.
Biography
Pauline Cassin was born in 1828/34/35. Her father was a functionary in the university and while still young, he died from a typhoid epidemic. A brother and sister died within a few months thereafter. Long afterwards, her only child, a daughter, died at the age of 23. Then Mrs. Caro's mother died, and finally her husband, Elme Marie Caro (1887), who had been a member of the Académie Française, leaving the widow alone in the world.
She wrote four novels under a fictitious name: Le Peche de Madeleine, Flamen, Histoire de Souci, and Les Nouvelles Amours d'Hermann et de Dorothee.
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