Adèle Toussaint-Samson
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.

Bibliography 
Toussaint-Samson. Une parisienne au Brésil: avec photographies originales. Paris: P. Ollendorff, 1883. 
Toussaint-Samson. A Parisian in Brazil. Boston: J.H. Earle, 1891. Translated by   Emma Toussaint
Toussaint-Samson, and June Edith Hahner. A Parisian in Brazil: The Travel Account of a Frenchwoman in Nineteenth-Century Rio De Janeiro. Wilmington, Del: SR Books, 2001.

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1826 births
1911 deaths
Writers from Paris
French travel writers
19th-century French writers
20th-century French non-fiction writers