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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.