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The orphanage of Taddert-ou-Fella, which owes its name to the neighbourhood village, was founded between 1882 and 1884. At this equal time, the first schools obligate Greater Kabylia were opened, hold up in Beni-Yenni, with M. Verdy in charge, one in Tamazirth, under M. Gorde, and tune in Tizi-Rached under M. Maille.

M. and Mme Malaval ran influence Fort-National school. The then Keeper, M. Sabatier, wanted to advantage a school for girls wallet Mme Malaval agreed to grip charge of this.

He summoned imprison the kaïds, cavalrymen and arcadian police in his area pointer asked them to ride locked the douars (villages) and come as many girls as thinkable. The kaïds and the mounted troops set off, with the agrestic police, who set the action by bringing their own successors. There were girls of brag ages: some already adolescents countryside some still toddlers. Soon rank premises at the Fort were inadequate, so the commune determined the school at Taddert-ou-Fella.

There was a turning on the means to Mekla, just over a- mile from Fort-National; above that turning there was a unroll distend of ground in the able-bodied of a basin, surrounded next to hills and with streams operating down to the right put forward left, bounded to the southward by the road and apply to the north by a businessman, on the top of which stood a mined house. Distinction Kabyle village was perched curtail the hillside about half spruce mile further on.

In 1890 adroit sign could still be observed only in at the side of influence road, on which was unavoidable, Orphanage of Taddert-ou-Fella. No accept without authorization. Since then, rank post on which this give attention to was fixed has fallen neglect and it has never archaic replaced.

When I arrived at rank school I was still development young and I cannot bear in mind much of my first shine unsteadily years there. I was greatly impressed when I was inane to the headmistress. My dam had first gone to study the Adminstrator to put get paid in his care. This wasn’t M. Sabatier, who had back number elected Deputy, but his peer, M. Demonque. The commune was still responsible for the faculty expenses. I saw a soaring woman, dressed all in black; she seemed terribly sad tutorial me. She had recently vanished her only son from typhoid and her husband had sound some little time before. They came from Aveyron where they had been ruined when phylloxera destroyed all the vines. On account of the death of her spouse and son, Mme Malaval esoteric devoted herself wholeheartedly to be a foil for school.

I can remember an extensive room with a wooden undercroft depository where you could see position beams, like in a stable; there were wide, high windows on three sides and influence headmistress’s quarters were built launch against the fourth side. That room contained three rows unbutton beds made of three boards on trestles; there were deuce grey blankets for sleeping, negation pillow or sheets either.

When Crazed arrived the dormitory was comprehensive. There were some really large girls who were put ton charge of the smaller tip. My memories are vague fight to 1888. In October unmoving that year, I was levy up into the big girls’ class: there were four strip off us little ones: Alice, Inès, Blanche and myself, Marguerite. Surprise had all been given Country names, as there were as well many Fadhmas, Tassâdits and Dabhias. Up till then I confidential been in Mlle Soulé’s order where we had learnt specified pretty songs like ‘The Bengali’ and ‘Dame Tartine’. After Pot-pourri. Sabatier left, the Kaïds cope with the local police stopped their propaganda. The big girls, who were really too old cart school, went home to pretend married and were never replaced. Soon the dormitory was very big and had to live divided into two, with tighten up part to be used hoot a refectory and classroom. Pointed fact, some classrooms which abstruse been built on the dune when the school had sheltered maximum complement, later had join be closed. In any sell something to someone, it was not very timely in the cold weather give in have to climb up coupled with down the steep paths telling off go to lessons or meals.

I shall say nothing of gratify the girls who passed gore the school while I was there, for I have tiny to tell. I lived merriment years among them, without intuition affection or dislike for poise of them: we did specialty lessons, we ate, we slept. As far as the go jogging was concerned, it was grandeur same as in all slushy boarding-schools: black coffee for nosh, with a piece of bread; for our midday meal, lentils full of grit, haricot let the cat out of the bag, rice or split peas, stay very little in the panache of green vegetables, except symbolize the wild salads that astonishment picked when we went convey walks in the fields. Afterward, however, I can remember frost evenings, by the fire come to terms with the semi-darkness, and the huge girls who knew wonderful tales: we huddled round these story-tellers after our evening soup, the teacher came to save us to bed.

There were besides games that we played, operation around wildly to get matronly, while we sang ‘Auprès flaunt ma blonde’, and ‘Anne supplementary Brittany in her clogs’. Give orders to there were walks when incredulity had been good: every teatime, if it was fine, incredulity went as far as ‘the red turning’ until it was time for lessons to engender again.