Sidonie de la Houssaye

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Sidonie de la Houssaye

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Sidonie de la Houssaye, born Hélène Perret, pen name Louise Raymond (Edgard, Louisiana, August 17, 1820 – February 18, 1894) was an American-born French language writer of Louisiana Creole descent.[1]

The daughter of Creoles Ursin Perret and Françoise Pain, she received a bilingual education in English and French while living in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. She married Alexandre Pelletier de la Houssaye when she was thirteen years old, and they had eight sons and one daughter together.

After her husband's death during the American Civil War, she worked as a school teacher in Franklin, Louisiana for an all girl's school that she had created.[2]

Works

  • Contes d'une grand-mère louisianaise
  • Pouponne et Balthazar, 1888
  • Amis et Fortune
  • Les Quarteronnes de La Nouvelle Orléans (posthumous tetralogy published from 1895 in Le Méchacébé)
Gina la quarteronne
Dahlia la quarteronne
Octavia la quarteronne
Violetta la quarteronne

References

  1. Emma T. Stafford Sidonie de la Houssaye Collection, Mss. 1445, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La. (accessed 2/18/2015) <http://cdm16313.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p120701coll19/>
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