School Uniform:  France--Recreations


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A popular modern development is to recreate old time school classes that school children can attend for a day. Some recreations are simple museum displays. Much more valuable and interesting for the children is an old time classroom that the children can really experience for a day. Some times they even dressup for the part. France is ne of the many countries in which these rcreations have appeared.

Musée de l'école rurale (Rural School Museum)

The Musée de l'école rurale is located in Trégarvan, a small town in northern Britanny. Pupils at one school museum showing how schools were around turn of century. No date is mentionned. Picture shows actual class with old benches and their inkwells. Some photographs and showcases not visible here further display views of that past: the grey smock all pupils wore, their sabots and interestingly enough the "cow" bell that kids had to wear if they were caught speaking Breton!

Musée de l'école de Echery

Another more discrete place accomodated, under the control of George Jung, the nostalgic ones of an old-time school, ravissant it museum in the school of Echery, where as of the first steps of the ground floor, one is impregnated by the odor of the old wood, wax, classrooms, of chalk--an odor of childhood for the elder ones, an odor to be discovered for youngest. Sainte-Mariens and inhabitants of the appendix, came to look for themselves, out of schoolboy smocks, in the significant collection of photographs of class of the end of the 19s until the end of 20th century. The schoolbooks published successively in French and German, testify to the significant upheavals undergone by generations of inhabitants of Alsace-Lorraine. The visitors sat down in the banks of the reconstituted class of 1930, will miss neither the blouse and the wash-hand basin of the Master, nor the bottle of ink and the clock where one could read the Roman numerals.

Un autre lieu plus discret a accueilli, sous la conduite de Georges Jung, les nostalgiques de l'école d'autrefois, le ravissant musée dans l'école d'Echery, où dès les premières marches du rez-de-chaussée, on est imprégné par l'odeur des anciennes salles de classes, de cire, de bois, de craie, une odeur d'enfance pour les aînés, une odeur à découvrir pour les plus jeunes. Sainte-Mariens et habitants de l'annexe, sont venus se retrouver, en tablier d'écolier, dans l'importante collection de photos de classe de la fin du 19s jusqu'à la fin du 20e. Les livres de classe publiés successivement en français et en allemand, témoignent des importants bouleversements subis par certaines générations d'habitants de l'Alsace-Lorraine. Les visiteurs se sont assis dans les bancs de la classe reconstituée de 1930, où ne manquent ni la blouse et le lavabo du maître, ni la bouteille d'encre et l'horloge où l'on pouvait lire les chiffres romains et numérique.







Christopher Wagner





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Created: February 20, 1998
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