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Article: The legend of Elissa Rhais. (Algerian woman writer) (Mosaic)
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- The Middle East
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- March 1, 1994
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On 28 October 1919, Elissa Rhais a 27 year old Algerian woman born in the town of Blida, disembarked from a ship at the French port of Marseilles with her son Rene, daughter Monique, and a nephew, Raoul, on her way to Paris.
Less than six months after her arrival this hitherto unknown Arab woman was the toast of the French capital, famous in the highest intellectual and literary circles in the land. La Revue des Deux Mondes, a prestigious literary magazine, had just published her story, Le Cafe Chantant, following a decision by Plon, one of France's most highly regarded publishers, to snap up her first book Saada the Moroccan Woman.
All the reviews were ...