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Pauline Caro
1828–1901
A 19th-century French novelist who wrote with a strong Catholic sensibility, she published both under her own name and the pseudonym P. Albane. Her life and fiction were shaped by personal loss, giving her work a serious, reflective tone.
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Amar es vencer
by Pauline Caro
About the author
Born Pauline Cassin in Caen in 1828, Pauline Caro became known as a French Catholic novelist and also wrote under the pen name P. Albane. She married the philosopher Elme-Marie Caro, and bibliographic records identify her as Pauline Cassin Caro.
She began publishing in the 1860s, including work associated with the Revue des deux mondes, and built a reputation as a novelist of moral and religious feeling. Reference sources consistently describe her as a woman of letters whose fiction belonged to the Catholic literary world of 19th-century France.
She died in Paris in 1901. Although she is not widely read today, her work still stands as part of the rich tradition of French women’s writing in the 1800s.