Méli mélo about French schools

It was nice to see that younger school children still use cartables!  These are the cute briefcases used by younger French students as backpacks!

Beautiful façade of a collège (nope it is not the same as in English!  A collège is a middle school in the French system)

Note the three words engraved under the  three windows of the second floor:  liberté, égalité, fraternité

Translated, this sign says: "in the memory of the students of this high school, deported from 1942 to 1944 because they were Jews, innocent victims of the nazi barbarism.  With the aid of the government of Vichy, they were exterminated in the death camps.  More than 120 of these children lived in the 14th arrondissement (that neighborhood).     We should never forget them!