Who is Jacques Cormery from The First Man and what is their importance?

Jacques Cormery is the novel version of Albert Camus. He is an Algerian man in search of information about his deceased father. As the book opens in 1913, Jacques is born in a small village in Algeria. His father names him after an Arab woman who helps deliver him. The father dies in war in France when Jacques is less than a year old. Forty years later, Jacques goes on a quest to find out about Henri.