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Sidonie de la Houssaye, born Hélène Perret, pen name Louise Raymond ( Edgard,
Emma T. Stafford Sidonie de la Houssaye Collection
Emma T. Stafford. Sidonie de la Houssaye Collection, Mss. 1445, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Sidonie de la Houssaye Papers
Sidonie de la Houssaye Papers, Mss. 105, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
mondesfrancophones.comSidonie de la Houssaye Collection
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)
Pouponne et Balthazar
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Sidonie de la Houssaye, born Hélène Perret, pen name Louise Raymond ( Edgard, Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
, August 17, 1820 – February 18, 1894) was an American-born French language
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Nor ...
writer of Louisiana Creole
Louisiana Creole ( lou, Kréyòl Lalwizyàn, links=no) is a French-based creole language spoken by fewer than 10,000 people, mostly in the state of Louisiana. It is spoken today by people who may racially identify as White, Black, mixed, and N ...
descent.
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
St. John the Baptist Parish (SJBP, french: Paroisse de Saint-Jean-Baptiste) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2020 census, the population was 42,477. The parish seat is Edgard, an unincorporated area, and the largest c ...
. 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
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states th ...
, she worked as a school teacher in Franklin
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, Louisiana for an all girl's school that she had created.
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
External links
Emma T. Stafford Sidonie de la Houssaye Collection
Emma T. Stafford. Sidonie de la Houssaye Collection, Mss. 1445, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Sidonie de la Houssaye Papers
Sidonie de la Houssaye Papers, Mss. 105, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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)
Pouponne et Balthazar
on rchive.org {{DEFAULTSORT:Houssaye, Sidonie De La 1820 births 1894 deaths 19th-century American writers Writers from Louisiana American writers in French 19th-century American women writers People from St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana People from Franklin, Louisiana Pseudonymous women writers 19th-century pseudonymous writers