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    MADAME LUCE, OF ALGIERS. 233

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    * For Another Month Madame Allix Struggl...

    and she also came in for ten thousand francs from property which had belonged to M . Allixwhose deathoccurring a short time

    previously , had removed the , obstacle to her , revisiting France . The authorities also urged her to return to Algiers and recommence

    operations of letters , writt promising en to her Madame further Allix _supj 3 at ort this . We time have from seen different a mass

    person with Government s in Paris , who or wi were th the influential cause of education either from and their on the connexion whole ;

    she seems to have been very successful in awakening interest in the metropolis aged mothe ; r , after and which ask her she consent went to down a second of to music Montrechat marriage at Al which iers to see this her she

    then meditated with M . Luce , a professor g : consent being obtained , the marriage was celebrated at Pa-is on the Her 19 th business of May in . France being concludedso far as was at the time

    future possible tim , and eMadame relying Luce on the set promised out on her hel , p to home be afforded and reached at a way ,

    her Algiers school once , amidst more great on the rej 5 oicings th of June from , parents 1846 , when and children she reopened , and

    every ardent thing desire appeared —the creation propitious of a for good her industrial at length institution realizing . But her

    with here months the again elapsed allowance came before in of the a her proper sp work irit salary was of official fairl to y herself adop delay ted , and and by a Government seven defrayal more of ,

    , bers all expenses and she . was During put * to these the months greatest the shifts school to keep kept it rising together in . num At

    this , time the Abbe Pelletau , Cure of Algiers , showed her great sympath accompanied y , and by gave leasant her ' what little small notes pecuniary which we think aid he it could worth muster while ,

    p , to translate , as showing the view of her labors taken by one so responsible The first for not _' e the is welfare dated on of the the town 16 th . ' December , 1846 , and runs

    thus : — * . Madame , I isited interesting establishment some months agoI

    lavish asked dail leave W y on to your send v poor to you ful your Mussulman fi l y mite , as children a help . towards the great charity you ,

    Permit me to-day I have the my h promise onor to . beMadame Votre tres humble , et obeissan , t serviteur ,

    Pj & LIiETAU . On the 2 . 1 st of May 1847 , the Abbe Pelletau writes to her from

    , the Cathedral Church .

    Madame I , am happy to be able'to send you several yards of calico for your l hope itt Later le g in irls . a 1 . will short myself time ' sen to introduce d them in to some you work some to ladies be done cap for able me of ; * and rendering I also

    VOL . YTT _, S

    Madame Luce, Of Algiers. 233

    MADAME LUCE , OF ALGIERS . 233

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 233, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/17/