Samuel Henry Berthoud

Samuel-Henri Berthoud (19 January 1804 – 26 March 1891) was a 19th-century French writer, journalist, and popular science writer for youth.

Biographie The son of a printer and bookseller of his hometown, after his studies on a scholarship at , Berthoud wrote the newspaper his father had founded in 1828, the Gazette de Cambrai, and inserted there serials that were noticed and made him admit to major literary magazines, the Revue des deux Mondes, la Patrie (under the pen name " Sam "), la Mode etc. He was chief editor of the Musée des familles then of the Mercure de France, in which he wrote extensively.

Berthoud was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur on 1 September 1844 and promoted an officer on 14 August 1867.