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Sidonie de la Houssaye (1820-1894) Sidonie de la Houssaye was born in 1820 to a rich
Creole family of both French and German descent that had played an important
role in colonial Louisiana. As a girl, she was tutored by a French governess
who instilled in her a love for the French language and its literature. At
fourteen she married Pelletier de la Houssaye and settled down in Saint
Martinville, a town that was nicknamed "Louisiana's little Paris".
Since the late Eighteenth Century, St. Martinville had served as a refuge for
French noblemen seeking to escape from the guillotine. Sidonie de la Houssaye
gave birth to fourteen children of whom only three survived. She and her
family moved to Franklin, Louisiana in 1841 and soon faced serious financial
problems. These difficulties became worse when in 1863 Raymond Pelletier de
la Houssaye died and Sidonie de la Houssaye undertook the task of raising and
educating her children by herself. She began to earn money for her struggling
family by teaching her neighbors’ children along with her own. She opened a
school for girls in 1849, reopened it after the Civil War in 1867, and opened
another school, with the help of a Miss Wallis, in 1882. Her daughter, Lilia,
died in 1875, leaving her eight small children in the care of their
grandmother. It was during this period that Mme de la Houssaye began to
publish serial stories and various other literary works in newspapers like L’Abeille,
her main goal being to meet her family's financial needs. Her texts were
written in French and some of them were later translated into English by her
grandchildren. She also wrote many stories for her grandchildren, most of
which have never been published. Mme de la Houssaye found, in a diary written
by her grandmother that she discovered in her attic, much of the material she
used in writing her short fiction. The well-known writer George Washington
Cable soon bought the rights to de la Houssaye’s work and borrowed from her
grandmother’s diary in search of material for Strange True Stories of
Louisiana (1889) and perhaps also for Old Creole Days (1879) and The
Grandissimes, A Story of Creole Life (1880). In "How I got
them," the introduction to this book, Cable briefly alluded to Mme de la
Houssaye. The manuscripts borrowed or bought by Cable from de la Houssaye
were photographed for Cable's text Strange True Stories of Louisiana.
In 1878, Sidonie de la Houssaye began Les Quarteronnes de la Nouvelle-Orléans, seen here in
both manuscript and published forms. These texts were published in the
newspaper Le Méschacébé, but their subject matter was so controversial
that the author signed them with her nom de plume, Louise Raymond. The
stories were centered around the legendary beautiful women of mixed blood in
New Orleans, known for arousing guilty passions in the men of high society.
In See: Edward Larocque Tinker. Les écrits de langue
française en Louisiane au XIXème siècle. Essais
biographique et bibliographique. (Paris: H. Champion, 1932). |
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