Rabat 1961, Raphael Cohen was helping his young brother in his school projects
Some of Dairac , my brother, help for high school projects!
Raphael Cohen m’aida a mes dessins de travaux pratiques en cours de Geologie, classe de 4eme au Lycee Gouraud de Rabat!

Raphy m’aidait , tout comme grand et responsable frere qu’il etait, a mes devoirs de lycee et ce qui paraissait tres difficile pour moi a accomplir tel que dessiner des roches comme devoirs de travaux pratiques en classe de Geologie et bien pour mon doue de frere ce n’etait que deux , trois coups de crayons de couleur et l’affaire etait reglee et je parvenais a avoir la meilleure note en sus du non-effort de ma part, vraiment un chic type mon frere .Il faut quand meme souligner qu’il avait des prises de conscience au niveau de l’ethique et donc ne m’aidait qu’en cas d’extreme urgence de ma part…
Voici un exemple que j’ai encore conserve precieusement dans mes archives, malgre tous les nombreux voyages que la destinee m’a fait faire.
I was pretty weak in Drawing as exhibited by Jean Gaston Mantel , the great artist, mentor of Dairac and my High Scool teacher
JG Mantel m’avait donne mention Passable en 1961 en classe de Dessin!

Back in in my young years as a College student I happened to be kind of ” blocked” when my artistic skills were required. So having a great artist sharing my room back in my parents Rabat house, needless to say that I begged my older brother to help me in my assignments. Of course Raphael was a man with strong principles and his code of Ethics dictated that I must try first to accomplish my college tasks without any external help..
After watching me for a very long time while he was busy painting in his canvasses and having some feeling towards me ( plus my promises for a month of helping him in various errands ) Raphy did make the sketches for my homework..
It only took him three minutes, I swear!
Here, I was agonising as how to draw rocks for my Geology courses and my beautiful stones in front of me were just sitting there and looking at me!
..Please Raphy help me! I begged him!
..Raphy with three strikes of a pencil did a fantastic job!
So great it was.. that my teacher refused first to release my assignment and after strong questioning I submitted to her that the job was beyond my capacity so my older brother “did in fact help me”!
And so my mark was exceptionally high but it was addressed to ” 18/20 for your brother!”
Anyhow it was great and until today I cherished this book from school!
Here some of those “helps” from Raphael Cohen
Bien pour votre frere!
Very Good for your Brother, so wrote my teacher in “my projects” back in 1961 during my Science classes of Geology!














