Louis Ramé

Ouida 's father, Louis Ramé , disappeared. It was assumed that he had been killed in the Paris street-fighting which preceded and followed the two sieges of this year.

Ouida 's father, Louis Ramé —he was originally from France—had moved in the 1830s to Bury St Edmunds, where he taught French intermittently. He was rumoured, though without conclusive evidence, to have been a...

Her father was also important in her education, encouraging her interest in history, politics (from a liberal standpoint), and the writings of Balzac and Stendhal . She wrote in an early diary, I must study...

In it she recorded her attitudes toward her education, her home in Bury St Edmunds, her father 's extended absences, and her visits to London and France.

The child Ouida , with her mother, left England for Boulogne on the coast of France, where they spent a number of weeks visiting her father, Louis Ramé , and were introduced to Laetitia Christine Bonaparte .