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 girls' school that she had created.^[2] In the 1870s, she began writing a series of stories for children that express the social conflicts of Civil War-era Louisiana, touching on themes including the history of slavery, animosity between Anglophone versus Francophone Louisianans, and Indigenous people in Louisiana.^[3] In the 1880s, she wrote and published the novel Pouponne et Balthazar (1888) about a young Acadian couple who fled from Canada to Louisiana when the British evicted them. She is best known for her 1895 book Les Quarteronnes de la Nouvelle Orléans (The Quadroons of New Orleans).

Works[edit]

• Contes d'une grand-mère louisianaise
  • "Les Petits Soldats"
  • "Les Petits Soldats" manuscript
• 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

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External links[edit]

• 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.
• www.louisiane.culture.fr
• mondesfrancophones.com
• 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, La. (accessed 2/18/2015)
• Pouponne et Balthazar on [archive.org]