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230 MADAME LUCE, OF ALGIERS.
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* For Another Month Madame Allix Struggl...
creating' sucli an institution , because they did not believe in the possibility of its success _; the Administration takes all tlie credit
now to itself , without giving * me any recompense whatever . They flatter the Departemental Bureaux A . rabes ! What a mockery ! I am
truly the rat in the fable . " . Having" thus been compelled by necessity to shut the door on her
little pupils , the reader will perhaps conclude that the teacher was at last daunted . The local authorities would do nothing for her ,
and she was upwards of nine hundred miles from the Central Government , to reach which was a far longer , more difficultand expensive
, journey than it is at present . Madame Luce was nearly destitute of money , and though , as we have seen , some of the officials at
Algiers had offered her a small sum as indemnification to herself , she had absolutely refused it , saying it was not personal help she
wanted , but support to an undertaking of great national importance . What , then , did she do next ? She pawned her plate , her
jewels , even a gold thimble , the gift of a friend , and set off for Paris on the loth of February , 1846 , where she at once sent in to
the Minister of War that memorial from which we have taken many of the preceding- details . * ' She also visited in person most of
* EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM RELATIVE TO THE INSTITUTION FOUNDED BY MADAME _ALIilX ; ADDRESSED TO THE MEMBERS OP THE _CONSEIJL SUPERIEUR
D ' ADMINISTRATION , AliGER , BY A FRIEND , WHILE SHE HERSELF WAS IN PARIS . March , 1846 .
Gentlemen A serious , question will be presented , next Friday , to your conscientious examination .
TAfrique This q b ues y ti peaceful on is that means of . civilization It is the question itself , as of the pable fusion of inoculation of two races in hitherto deemed to present an insoluble problem , but now resolved in the
a affirmative successful , throu result g , which the acti is at on once of a totall so unexpected y new institution and so . decided It also relates sidered to for p lished a th e ictory , future every over . _hoj _> e native may reasonabl prejudices y , that wi this thout first presum _stej ) pt being ion 1 b safel e , entertain y accom ed
cip R eg o arded f our instincts thus occu , p th of ation is civilization question of a p is immense and of A to fr the i . It it h touches ilant responds hro the ic admirab vital reuirements moral ly to prin the of - generous
the century ; it is , besides , easy of , immediate a p pplication p ; it can q be progressively realized bh in all parts of i Algeria ;—and well understood and caiTied out ,
it elapse This may d , is e the great te hi means g p h point of the of sav ex view n p g enses t from o the wh which i G ch overn no I w venture m w ei t g , h , before on to the call a _Afri y long our can time bud tention get lias .
to Mussu the lman establishment irls . founded by Madame Allix for the benefit of young-None among g you , gentlemen , are ignorant of how many serious , powerful , invincible obstaclesthemselves to
nay and of our moral influe , opposed e in Algeria . These the obstacles development are such , of our that ideas all direct The eclat means of the yet conquest employed , the to grandeur conquer of them our have measures hitherto , the been magnificence , in vain .
superiority of their results of _France , the presti —none ge of of a these hundred things victories have been , added able to to the prevail intellectual against
230 Madame Luce, Of Algiers.
230 MADAME LUCE , OF _ALGIERS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/14/
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