Figure 1.-- The boys in the image look mostly French. They must have been the older boys at the school. They look to be about 12-13 years old. Curiously they mostly wear tennis shoes. We have noted many French boys wearing tennis shoes, but never so many in a single class. The owner of the photograph guesses it was taken in 1961-62, but I thought most French people were leaving Algeria at that time.

Here we see the Ecole Jules Ferry. Oullins is the city in France where it was located. Oullins is a small town near Lyon. The number "69" appears represents the District (département) of Rhone. We have one available image from the school. It was clearly a boys' school, but we know virtully nothing about the school. The image we have looks like the older boys at the school. They look to be about 12-13 years old. Curiously they mostly wear tennis shoes. We have noted many French boys wearing tennis shoes, but never so many in a single class. The owner of the photograph guesses it was taken in 1961-62.

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