Name of Object:

L'École de la Rue du Pacha (classrooom exit)

Location:

La Manouba, Tunis, Tunisia

Holding Institution:

Institut Supérieur d’Histoire Contemporaine de la Tunisie

 About Higher Institute for the Study of Contemporary History of Tunisia, University of Manouba, La Manouba, Tunis

Date of Object:

1907

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Paper

Description:

The school founded by Louise-Renée-Millet, opened 1 May 1900, was the first public school for young Muslim girls. Pictured here are the young girls as they enter school, veiled, accompanied and under the strict gaze of their French teachers. Subsidised by the French Resident-General until it was taken over by a habous, the school came under the government's jurisdiction between 1911 and 1912, and was then moved to a new residence on the Rue du Pacha. Despite its humble beginnings, with just five students, the school steadily expanded. Nabeul, Sousse, and Kairouan, on the inside of the country, soon followed suit and opened their own public schools. L'École de la Rue du Pacha held the held the important position as the first school of its kind, as well as the cradle for many important members of the first generation of political militants and feminist activists.

Type of Object

Photograph

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

L’illustration magazine, 1907

Citation of this web page:

Saloua Khadhar Zangar "L'École de la Rue du Pacha (classrooom exit)" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;tn;67;en

Prepared by: Saloua Khadhar Zangar
Translation by: Flaminia Baldwin

MWNF Working Number: TN 067