Memoires de Samson De La Comedie Francaise by Joseph Isidore Samson (AB509)

Published 1882: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated frontispiece / French Text

Original quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt ribbed titles on the spine. 338 very clean and bright pages, decorated endpapers. Boards slightly rubbed with time and bumped on the corners consistent with age. Scarce! (AB509)

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Joseph Isidore Samson (1793 – 1871) was a 19th-century French actor and playwright.

Samson was born at Saint-Denis, near Paris, the son of a restaurateur. He took first prize for comedy at the Conservatoire in 1812, married an actress with whom he had toured in France, and joined the Comédie-Française in 1826. There he remained until 1863, creating more than 250 parts.

In 1829 Samson became a professor at the Conservatoire, under which Rachel Félix (1821–1858), Rose Cheri (1824–1861), the Brohans and others were trained. He wrote several comedies, among them La Belle-Mère et le gendre (1826), and La Famille poisson (1846). Samson died in Paris on 28 March 1871. Google Books.