Sidonie de la Houssaye


Sidonie de la Houssaye, née Hélène Perret, pen name Louise Raymond was an American-born French language writer of Louisiana Creole 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. She married Alexandre Pelletier de la Houssaye when she was thirteen years old, and they had eight sons and one daughter.
After her husband's death during the American Civil War, she worked as a school teacher in Franklin, Louisiana.

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