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Meet the French & Spanish Traveler

Valerie Sutter, founder and director of The French Traveler, Inc. holds a Master’s degree from the Faculté de Lettres de Lyon and another from Lesley College in Cambridge, MA. She lived for five years in France where she taught English at one of France’s grandes écoles, and for twelve years in Brazil, where she taught French and European History at the American School of Rio de Janeiro, while directing their International Baccalaureate Program. In the US, she taught English at Jersey Village High School in Houston and French at Phillips Exeter Academy in NH and The Fessenden School in MA.

Fluent in French and in Portuguese with a modest grasp of Spanish, Valerie is passionate about cultural acquisition and language immersion as the means of knowing and understanding another culture, another world. She currently spends many months of the year in France imbibing French culture and planning her next workshops for teachers as well as trips for other Francophiles. When in the United States, she channels her energies into running The French Traveler and advancing Francophile causes.

 

The French Traveler
Advisory Board

Professor Jean-Pierre Berwald
AATF Regional Representative/New England

Professeur Henri Mazille
Institut des Sciences Appliquées, Lyon, France

Professor Brian Thompson
University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

Professor Joseph Reiter
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH

Professor Griffin Morse
Director, School Year Abroad, Zaragoza, Spain

Joyce Beckwith
Chair of the Promotion Commission

Elaine Uzan Leary
Director of French Library and Cultural Center, Boston, MA.

French Traveler Links

Tennessee Bob's Famous French links

www.FrenchTeachers.org

France Press

Search engine through Swarthmore college

Information on the Louvre