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A Frenchwoman's Imperial Story: Madame Luce in Nineteenth-Century Algeria

A Frenchwoman's Imperial Story: Madame Luce in Nineteenth-Century Algeria

Rogers, Rebecca

Hardcover

French HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0804784310
ISBN13: 9780804784313
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jan 16 2013
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Eugénie Luce was a French schoolteacher who fled her husband and abandoned her family, migrating to Algeria in the early 1830s. By the mid-1840s she had become a major figure in debates around educational policies, insisting that women were a critical dimension of the French effort to effect a fusion of the races. To aid this fusion, she founded the first French school for Muslim girls in Algiers in 1845, which thrived until authorities cut off her funding in 1861. At this point, she switched from teaching spelling, grammar, and sewing, to embroidery--an endeavor that attracted the attention of prominent British feminists and gave her school a celebrated reputation for generations.

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