Marguerite-Fadhma Aït Mansour Amrouche

Marguerite-Fadhma Aït Mansour Amrouche was born in the year 1882 in Tizi Hibel, Algeria and died on the 9th July, 1967 in Saint-Brice-en-Coglès, France. She is the mother of journalists called Jean Amrouche and Taos Amrouche.

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She was conceived in a Kabylie town, the illegitimate little girl of a widow. Confronting savage separation from inside her surroundings, she cleared out her town to study at a common school. Later, when she was with the Sisters at Aït Manguellet clinic, she changed over to Roman Catholicism. She met another Kabyle Catholic proselyte, Antoine-Belkacem Amrouche, whom she wedded in 1898. They had eight kids together, however just two of them remained alive at the time of her death. The family initially moved to Tunis, where Taos was conceived, and after that France.

Throughout her lifetime, she made an extensive effect on the works of Jean and Taos. The society melodies she sang to her family were assembled and deciphered to French by Jean in 1939 as Chants berbères de Kabylie. In 1967, Taos made a music collection in Kabyle bearing the same title as Jean's folk music gathering. Her personal history Histoire de mama vie was distributed after death in 1968. This book talks about basically about the life she lived living in two separate worlds: between the customary Kabyle life and dialect and the colonial power France, its dialect, and especially its prevalent religion, Christianity.