Sidonie de la Houssaye

Deceased Person

1820 – 1894

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Who was Sidonie de la Houssaye?

Sidonie de la Houssaye, née Hélène Perret, pen name Louise Raymond was an American French language writer.

The daughter of French 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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Born
Aug 17, 1820
Died
Feb 18, 1894

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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