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234 MADAME U7CE , OF ALGIERS.
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freel ch aid ildren . y I by hav the Bend e some treasurer old , some of from the very church old house things . . , You to which fetch can h use ave them been g up iven for your me
. some _Vdtr one e infininaent your devbiie ' et ' respectueux , them . serviteur ' ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦ ¦¦'' ' ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ -
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referred to certain old vestments which , tlie good cure gave for the , cause of charity .
Again , he writes with the same packet- — • Madame ¦ ¦ < . ¦ - ' : ¦ . ' . > ¦ . ¦ ¦ .. ¦ ¦ . . ' _.- . ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ' ... .: . ¦ . - . ¦ ¦ :. ; ¦ , ; :: ;; .. •¦• ,
To you I send niy . respectful ! salutation , to your children my kind regards Be May so . God good cheri as to sh . , receive and protect for those them all ! them who are the steadiest and
the most industrious , the little packet among which I have pleasure in sending . / [ "He then playfully signs in Arabic character May Grod s protect thus , ] your house - . . " . ' _..-. ;
PEIiLETAU . Count Guyot also helped her from his own private pursehaving
, always felt a great personal interest in the undertaking , though lie seemed so unable to afford her the necessary official support during "
the previous winter . To him , when the necessities o £ the day pressed too heavily ., she now sent one of her negresses , for she was
obliged to keep two to attend to the house and to fetch and reconduct the pupils . Count Guyot would then send a small 1 sum for her
assistance . He also one day gave her a small bagof money left by the Due d'Aumale , when Governor of Algeria , for the benefit of sl journal which had by this time ceased to exist , telling- her she
might have whatever it contained . Madame Luce opened the bag * , and found 250 francs , ' c < and this inoney , " said she , " _ajDpeared to
me to come from Providence . " In November , 1846 , she received letters from Queen Amelie , the
wife of Louis Philippe . The Queen took the school under her patronage , and offered to pay for the schooling * of several pupils , or ,
as it is called in France , payer la bourse , " but the gathering Revolution , which burst early in 1848 prevented any such arrangements
, from being carried into effect . Among innumerable letters referring" to this time of difficulty
, we find one from a great man , Marshal Bugeaud , the Due d'Isly , one of the military heroes of Africa . He writes thus : —
Madame Alger , January _22 nd , 1847 .
I , greatly regret not being able to fulfil the request which you make
to me ask . . I have no funds at my dis ' posal from whi . ch to advance the sum which you The sums which should be given aa a reimbursement of our exenses
have not yet been procured from the you Minister , but they will y shortly p be so . . 1 do not think , therefore , that you will wait very long before receiving them f
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234 Madame U7ce , Of Algiers.
234 MADAME U 7 CE , OF _ALGIERS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 234, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/18/
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