In the orphanage of the French friars next to the Algerian city of Oran, a beautiful story began in 1902, which is renewed every winter in the town of Misserghin, where the name itself indicates a “warm place”. Monk Clément Rodier “caught” a gang of lazy orphans eating some unknown fruits with delight. And she likes it too... He multiplied the fruit tree with grafts and spread in his honor the mandarin variety called Clementina, which has a reddish skin that is easy to peel and grains with few seeds. The bitter orange (Citrus aurantium var. amara) has been found to be an ancient hybrid between common mandarin, a bixic sister of other known varieties in Saigon, China and Japan. He hasn't lost his monk's name because of it.