Adèle Toussaint-Samson
French writer
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| Intro | French writer | ||||||
| Places | France | ||||||
| was | Writer | ||||||
| Work field | Literature | ||||||
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| Birth | 1826, Paris, Seine, Île-de-France, France | ||||||
| Death | 1911 (aged 85 years) | ||||||
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Adèle Toussaint-Samson (1826–1911) was a French author and poet. She is the author of A Parisian in Brazil: The Travel Account of a Frenchwoman in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro. The 124-page book is one of the few first-person accounts by a female visitor to Latin America during this period.
In the mid-1800s, Toussaint-Samson traveled from Paris to Brazil with her husband to improve their family fortune. While in Brazil, Toussaint-Samson wrote A Parisian in Brazil, a portrait of slavery, gender relations, and daily life there. Toussaint-Samson also published several poems and essays.
In 1891, her daughter, Emma Toussaint, translated A Parisian in Brazil into English. In 2003, it was translated into Portuguese by Maria Inez Turazzi as Uma parisiense no Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Capivara, 2003.