French girls’ high school in Puducherry to get new lease of life
The Hindu
Pensionnat De Jeunes Filles to be restored under Smart City project
After crying for attention for several decades, the Pensionnat De Jeunes Filles, considered to be India’s only French girls’high school run by the Puducherry government, will soon be taken up for restoration under an initiative of the Puducherry Smart City Development Limited (PSCDL).
The two-storey French architecture-styled building, which remained in a precarious condition, was provisionally shut down along with two other government schools that functioned out of heritage buildings in 2014 after the collapse of the 144-year-old Marie (Town Hall) building on the Beach Promenade.Students of the three schools were shifted to other institutions.
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