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Adèle Toussaint-Samson
(FRENCH TRAVELLING WOMAN 1800-1900, TRAVELLING WOMAN WHO WITNESSED SLAVERY)
BIRTH
1820 DEATH
1912
French. Woman of letters. Resided in Brazil for twelve years. A generous person and a good writer, she received a prize from the Académie française. At a very old age, but still quite active, she died accidentally, burned in her Paris flat.

BOOKS

Une Parisienne au Brésil, Paris, Ollendorff, 1883.
A Parisian in Brazil. A travel account of a Frenchwoman in Nineteenth-Century, Rio de Janeiro, Translated by Emma Toussaint. Edited and introduced by June E. Hanher, Wilmington, Delaware, Scholarly Resources Inc., 2001.
Uma Parisiense no Brasil. Adèle Toussaint-Samson, Tradução do original francês, Maria Lucia Machado, Rio de Janeiro, Editora Capivara, 2003.

EXTRAITS D'OUVRAGES

Toussaint Samson

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