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Maurice Audin (14 February 1932 – c. 21 June 1957) was a renowned French mathematics assistant at the University of Algiers, a member of the Algerian Communist Party and an activist in the anticolonialist cause, who died under torture by the French state during the Battle of Algiers. [1]
Sep 13, 2018 · The death in custody of Maurice Audin, a 25-year-old mathematician, has for decades been a symbol of the French Army’s brutality during the Algerian War, much as the My Lai massacre became for ...
Maurice Audin, né le 14 février 1932 à Béja ( Tunisie) et déclaré mort le 21 juin 1957 à Alger, est un mathématicien français. Assistant à l' université d'Alger, il est membre du Parti communiste algérien et militant de l' indépendance algérienne 2 .
Sep 13, 2018 · Mathematics lecturer Maurice Audin (right) was disappeared in 1957 during the Algerian war. Credit: Alamy. French President Emmanuel Macron has officially recognized that the French army tortured ...
- Barbara Casassus
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Maurice Audin was the son of Louis Audin (1900-1977) and Alphonsine Fort (1902-1989). Louis Audin was born into a working class family from Lyon in France, while Alphonsine was born into a peasant family from Mitidja in the north of Algeria. Louis Audin became chief of police in Béja, Tunisia, and he married Alphonsine in 1923 in Koléa, a ...
Jan 17, 2019 · The 87-year-old is telling me about her life with Maurice Audin, a fellow maths student at the University of Algiers in the 1950s. They met during a lecture, fell in love and got married. Both ...
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Sep 13, 2018 · Maurice Audin, 25, was working as a mathematician at the University of Algiers when he was arrested in 1957. In a rare admission on Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron said Audin had either ...
