It is famous for being the town to which Django Reinhardt retired, and hosts an annual jazz festival in his honor. It was also the home to Reverchon Industries, a major global bumper car and other amusement ride producer. It is the birthplace of French jazz singer Cyrille Aimée.[3] It has a lively community, with a primary school, a weekly market, a baker, a butcher, two cafés/bars, several restaurants and hotels. A bus also provides a link to the nearby town of Fontainebleau/Avon, the route of the world's first commercial trolleybus 1901–1913.
Île du Berceau, where the Django Reinhardt festival takes place
Demographics
Inhabitants of Samois-sur-Seine are called Samoisiens in French.
The town is mentioned in the 1954 novel Story of O as the location of the fictional mansion managed by Anne-Marie, a lesbiandominatrix. In 1978, the name Samois was adopted by a lesbian-feministBDSM organization based in San Francisco that existed from 1978 to 1983. It was the first lesbian BDSM group in the United States.[6]
Maud Gonne – The cemetery of Samois-sur-Seine is where in 1893 the English-born Irish republican revolutionary, suffragette, and actress Maud Gonne conceived Iseult Gonne in a sex magick ritual to reincarnate the soul of her dead son, in the crypt of the child's mausoleum, next to the coffin.
^Reich, Ronni (The Star Ledger) (21 October 2012). "Cyrille Aimee wins the first Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Competition". nj.com True Jersey. Retrieved 22 February 2015. ...instantly recognizable sound: a soft, girlish buzz with a touch of an Edith Piaf-like quaver....Aimée honed her skills growing up in the village of Samois-sur-Seine, ... In 2007, she was named winner of the first and public prizes at the Montreux Jazz Festival Competition. ... rhythmically driven style...