Figure 1.--Here we have another French ecole (primary school) in Algeria. This is the Ecole Caroubier in 1949-50. We know nothing about the school at this time. The image we have is a CE2 school which would be something like 2nd grade, The children wea a variety of outfits. Several children wear smocks, mostyly vichy (ginham) patterened smocks. At least one boy wears a romper suit. Another boy may wear romper pants.

Here we have another French ecole (primary school) in Algeria. This is the Ecole Caroubier in 1949-50. We are not sure just where in Algeria the school was located. We know nothing about the school at this time. We do have some images at the school from the era just after World War II We have a CE1 class in 1948-49. This would be like 2nd grade. Quite a number of the boys wear rompers. We have noted boys commonly wearing rompers to the Maternelle level, but usually just a few boys in theaely primary years. Here many of the boys wear rompers. The image here is a CE2 school which would be something like 3rd grade (figure 1), The children wea a variety of outfits. Several children wear smocks, mostyly vichy (ginham) patterened smocks. At least one boy wears a romper suit. Another boy may wear romper pants.