Eleanor Levieux

Background

Eleanor Levieux was born on the 26th of October, 1937 in Rochester, New York, United States. The daughter of a history teacher and radio broadcaster, Jack and a social studies teacher, Florence Miller Ross.

Education

Eleanor attended Middlebury College in the summer of 1956. She studied at Université de Bor­deaux in France from 1959 to 1960. In 1959, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University. In 1978, she earned a Master of Arts degree from Université de Paris VII (now Paris Diderot University).

Career

Eleanor Levieux began her career as an English adviser for the publisher, René Julliard in Paris, France, that post she took from 1960 to 1964. From 1966 to 1986, she worked as a translator and editor for the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. In 1984, she joined the British Institute in Paris (now the University of London Institute in Paris), where she accepted the post of an assistant professor.

Eleanor served at political science institute, Sciences Po in Paris, where she was a lecturer of English in 1985-88. She worked as a professor in the French department at the University of Oregon in Eugene in 1987, 1989-90, 1992-93, 1995 and1998.

With her husband, Michel Levieux, Eleanor produced French: A Colourful Guide to Idiomatic Usage in 1980, Cassell's Colloquial French: A Handbook of Idiomatic Usage in 1990 and Insiders' French: Beyond the Dictionary in 1999. She has also translated many French works into English.

Achievements

• Eleanor Levieux is an outstanding educator and a prolific author and translator. She received Fulbright fellowships in Bordeaux and Strasbourg, as a student and university teaching as­sistant in 1959-61.

Works

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  • Insiders' French: Beyond the Dictionary

    (If you had been living in France in the 1990s, the langua...)

    1999
  • Cassell's Colloquial French: A Handbook of Idiomatic Usage 1990
  • French: A Colourful Guide to Idiomatic Usage: French 1980

Membership

Eleanor is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Interests

• hiking, swim­ming, traveling, reading, grandsons, music, theater

Connections

Eleanor is married to Michel Levieux. They have two daughters, Patri­cia de Cortanze and Valérie.

Father:

Jack Ross

Mother:

Florence Miller Ross

husband:

Michel Levieux

Daughter:

Patri­cia de Cortanze Levieux

Daughter:

Valérie Levieux