Albert Soboul - Early Life

Early Life

Albert Marius Soboul was born in Ammi Moussa, Algeria, in the spring of 1914. His father, a textile worker, died later that same year. He and his older sister Gisèle grew up first in a rural community in Ardèche in southern France before moving with their mother back to Algeria. When she too died in 1922, the children were sent to be raised by their aunt Marie in Nîmes.

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