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Victoria Ocampo
Victoria Ocampo was an Argentine intellectual, described by Jorge Luis Borges as la mujer mas argentina ("the most Argentine woman"). Best known as an advocate for others and as publisher of the magazine Sur, she was also a writer and critic in her own right.
She was born in Buenos Aires and was educated at home by a French governess. She would later write, "the alphabet-book in which I learned to read was French, as was the hand that taught me to draw those first letters." [*]
She is sometimes said to have attended the Sorbonne: on page 39 of ...
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