Be fruitful and multiply: Exclusive insight into "Educating for Peace: 100 Years of Ecolint"
Published on January 14, 2025
The students’ activities on Ecolint’s inaugural day, the 17th September 1924, partly revolved around a pregnant rabbit, innocently brought to the school as a pet by one of the eight children present. The rapid reproduction of rabbits is notorious: by 1930, an entire shack was devoted to them in La Grande Boissière, where they were lovingly looked after by Middle School students, in a scene that evokes a pastoral engraving from the 18th century. What exactly the rabbits’ ultimate destiny was remains unclear, but given the popularity of a filet de lapin or cuisse de lapin in the local gastronomy at the time, one may fear the worst.
(Photo credit: Ecolint Archives)