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306 MADAME LUCE, OF ALGIERS.
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For the present state of the school we must refer tq the last report sent in to the Prefet in December , 1860 . The first part of it is
' yearl occup y ied expense with proving of the school , in answer was rather to Madame certain less than questions during had b , that the it two the at
first years of its establishment , when Luce orne which her own it is risk much . She easier then for goes me on to to say l — is " thus The second worded point : Exact , on repy
information on the importance of the results , obtained in all that concerns the studies and the progress of the pupils . ' "
" The spirit which presided over the creation of the school for young Mussulman girls is shown in these official words of M . le Comte
Guyot , then Director of the Interior . A Mussulman school ought io mean of Arab ; for women those who above are all acquainted -a centre of with benevolence the customs ( maison and manners de
bienfaisance labor .. , _} These and points of , education being in attended the moral to , would sense sooner of , that or word later , and bring of
about the regeneration of Mussulman women ; there remains the question of elementary instructionand I will now examine if a
school triple . result has been obtained according , . . . ¦ to the statistics of the
" The number of young girls who have attended the school since its commencement is 1035 although the school was divided during four
years , and though , the workshop , was detached , and on this subject I think I ought to add , that not only did the young girls of twelve
and thirteen gain wages to the amount of 50 and 75 centimes a day , ( from fivepence to sevenpenee halfpenny ) which increased according
as there was workbut moreover , when , they left the school the workshop furnished , them employment at their own homes .
" About 600 could speak , read , and write _French ; nearly all understood our languageand _coiild reckon aloud with sufficient facility ;
six have been sent , out as submistresses to the different schools created in Algeria ; one has successfully obtained a diploma as
teacher ; two have been sent as interpreters to the family of the Emir Abd-el-Kaderat Amboise . I will add no remark to these
figures ; the results , which they indicate differ in no respect from those daily obtained in our primary French schools .
" You are aware , M . le Prefet , that intellectual teaching occupies onlhalf of the time allotted to the classes ; the other half being
y exclusively assigned to professional instruction . My efforts are chiefly directed to the latter end ; which is the only true method of
morally civilizing the Arab women . The success obtained in works of the needle has surpassed all my hopes ; it has been proved by
an exhibition of work . A , great number of Arab girls and women have found a sufficient subsistence from their earnings in the
execution of that native embroidery of which the tradition seemed lost . _" Two prizes awarded bthe jury of theExposition Universelle of
1855 ,. corroborate what I have y had the honor to affirm , above , and
even quite recently , Her Majesty the Empress , while expressing to
306 Madame Luce, Of Algiers.
306 MADAME LUCE , OF ALGIERS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 306, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/18/
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