Saint-Saëns, Mme. Camille
(1855–1950)
Saint-Saëns, Mme. CamilleSaint-Saëns, CamilleCamille Saint-Saëns (B * REIMS, 1855 – D † CAUDERAN, 1950) Born Marie-Laure Emilie Truffot, wife of the composer Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 – 1921), the sister of one of his students. They married in 1875, but in 1881, three years after the accidental deaths of their two children, within weeks of each other, Saint-Saëns abandoned her, holding her personally responsible. André (1876 – 1878) fell off a fourth-floor balcony at age two and one-half…