A Parisian in Brazil: The Travel Account of a Frenchwoman in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro

by Adele Toussaint-Samson

Book Overview

This virtually unknown, insightful account by a highly intelligent, observant and forthright Frenchwoman of her decade-long stay in Brazil during the 1850s provides a remarkable firsthand view of a slaveocrat society. In an effort to improve their family's fortune, enterprising and highspirited young Parisian Adele Toussaint-Samson traveled with her husband from France to Brazil in the mid 1800s. While there, she wrote of her experiences, painting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842028552
• ISBN13: 9780842028554
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 121 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 8.6"