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MADAME LUCE , OF ALGIERS. 225
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* For Another Month Madame Allix Struggl...
Monsieur For six le months JDirecteuv I have General _pLirsue , d an Idea of the utmost value to irls
civilization : —the education of young Mohammedan gaccording the to European in which princi it p first les and presented usages itself . I hardl to my y know gina how tion to ; _doLibtless describe way
the circumstances of my _jmvate life contributed largely to its birth a and dmitted development to intimat . e I rel had ations long with been practised native in families Arabic . , I and keenl was y many
felt insurmoun direc at large what tion ; - g and important iven tabl without e to I the devoted changes education being In rebuffed of domestic -women entirel by , life changes difficulties and can without be extending produced hitherto reserve to jud society by to ged the the , myself y counted
much success on of the the hel undertaking of the Al . gerine It is unnecessary Government to . add It that seeme I d to me fit and natural that p as I was -working not d on my own tl account for the , Inte but
res for ts the of interests France in of this civilization country , I itself should , an be _siistained consequen by y the authority - which would profit by my efforts . those to
whom I have I have found confided certain my ly much plans ; sympath but unfortunatel y among y those persons very per- - sons doubted of the resultand dared to encourage me by words
, alone . Thus Monsieur le JDirecteur cle V Interieur _, when he gave me authorization to Moorish schooltook care to add , that
an open my , thi I s have experiment passed must even be this made limit at . my I felt in risk my and conviction peril . a moral
force Government which sustained , according me to against M . le Comte every Guyot discouragement , did not dare . That to which do on
its and own what responsibilit is still more y , I remarkable attempted , on I my have own succeeded personal b resources eyond my :,.
own hopes . sent In to November the Minister last ( I in liad Paris got ) on together this subj ten ect pup in which ils . A what report is now
was-Minister an accomp however lished fact none -was the onl less y treated thought as , the an subject experiment worth . y The of
serious examin , ation , and referred it to the local government , that promised it might so encourage much in , the witli fut all ure its . resources What the did Minister an the undertakin local ? authorit g which y do »
to follow up the enlightened ideas of This is what it did . On the 29 th of December I had spent 2000 1 those francs which , ( £ 80 , )
and I had thirteen pupils , without counting were offered exhausted to . me I from ht all to have quarters changed . . Unhapp my house ily , my owing resources to the small wereoug
fco size extremit pay of the the I one first addressed I was half- inhabiting year myself ' s rent to , and the of I Dire the had c new tion not cle the dwelling VInterieur money . necessary _, In and this . I ,
wrote was then to y M no . le reasonable Comte Guyot doub a detailed t to be rep entertained ort of my ; position the experiment . There
Madame Luce , Of Algiers. 225
MADAME LUCE , OF _ALGIERS . 225
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 225, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/9/
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