2014
DOI: 10.14321/frencolohist.15.2014.0039
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Social Networks and Empire: Senegalese Students in France in the Late Nineteenth Century

Abstract: A la fin du XIXe siècle, presque deux cents enfants du Sénégal ont reçu des bourses métropolitaines, qui les ont permis de suivre les cours dans un lycée ou un collège de France, de la Tunisie, ou de l’Algérie. Leurs parents ont dû choisir un correspondant qui habitait près de l’école. Le correspondant devait assurer le paiement des frais de l’école, subvenir aux besoins de l’élève, et surveiller des sorties occasionnelles. Cet article examine les relations entre les correspondants et les boursiers sénégalais,… Show more

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“…Together, bank shares and the investment of compensation money in real estate assets allowed many habitant families to continue to hold capitalizable assets, which enabled them to invest in new businesses and, as Jones argues, in their families. 66 One-third of the people included in a list of "notables" published in 1858 were compensation claimants. Their combined compensation claims amounted to more than F 157,000, and with those assets they had become or continued to be landlords/owners, traders, dealers, merchants, work supervisors, mayoral deputies, and property managers.…”
Section: Buying Inmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Together, bank shares and the investment of compensation money in real estate assets allowed many habitant families to continue to hold capitalizable assets, which enabled them to invest in new businesses and, as Jones argues, in their families. 66 One-third of the people included in a list of "notables" published in 1858 were compensation claimants. Their combined compensation claims amounted to more than F 157,000, and with those assets they had become or continued to be landlords/owners, traders, dealers, merchants, work supervisors, mayoral deputies, and property managers.…”
Section: Buying Inmentioning
confidence: 99%