![]() ![]() ![]() In 1912, Ocampo married Bernando de Estrada (also known as Monaco Estrada). Her old traditional wealthy family frowned on formal education for women, so Victoria had little. She remembered particularly enjoying Henri Bergson's lectures at the latter. ![]() She is sometimes said to have attended the Sorbonne: on page 39 of her biography of Ocampo, Doris Meyer states that, during the family's 1906–1907 trip to Paris, the same during which she was etched by Paul César Helleu, the Ocampos allowed 17-year-old Victoria, "well-chaperoned," to audit some lectures at the Sorbonne and at the Collège de France. She later wrote: "the alphabet-book in which I learned to read was French, as was the hand that taught me to draw those first letters." Villa Ocampo, the writer's San Isidro home, now a cultural centerīorn Ramona Victoria Epifanía Rufina Ocampo in Buenos Aires into a high-society family, she was educated at home by a French governess. ![]()
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