Nationwide mobilization pulled wives into the maquis where many learned of their husbands’ deaths

Evidence

Often the childless woman, witnessing the mass involvement of the nation, seeing the young girls of the village leaving one after another, would decide to join her husband. She would of course not see him often, but in periods of relative calm the couple could come together. It was not unusual for the woman arriving in the maquis to learn of the death of her husband. Often she would return to the village to her parents’ home, but sometimes the shock would make her decide to stay with the fighters and take part in the struggle for liberation. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 378