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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Monique_Cossard > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Monique_Cossard.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique_Cossard > Source revision: 1242501582 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|French-American educator}} {{Infobox person | name = Monique Cossard | image = MoniqueCossard1968.png | alt = | caption = Monique Cossard, from a 1968 publication of the U.S. State Department | birth_name = Monique Jeanne Desvaux | birth_date = November 20, 1921 | birth_place = Boissy St. Leger, France | death_date = April 4, 2023 | death_place = United States | other_names = | occupation = Educator, textbook writer | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | spouse(s) = | relatives = }} '''Monique Jeanne Desvaux Cossard''' (November 20, 1921 – April 4, 2023) was a French-American educator and textbook writer. She worked for the [United States Department of State](/source/United_States_Department_of_State) from 1951 to 1984, and was the author of several books on French language learning. ==Early life and education== Monique Desvaux was born in [Boissy-Saint-Léger](/source/Boissy-Saint-L%C3%A9ger), France. She graduate from the [University of Paris](/source/University_of_Paris). ==Career== Cossard taught French in Paris. She moved to the United States in 1951, to teach French to American foreign service personnel in Washington, D.C. From 1957 to 1959, she was assistant director at the [Foreign Service Institute](/source/Foreign_Service_Institute) in Nice, and from 1959 to 1962 directed the language program at the [United States embassy in Paris](/source/Embassy_of_the_United_States%2C_Paris). She became a Senior Instructor, and later head of the Romance Languages department, at the FSI Language Training Program in [Rosslyn, Virginia](/source/Rosslyn%2C_Virginia), in the early 1960s.[https://books.google.com/books?id=qgwvAAAAMAAJ&dq=Monique+Cossard&pg=RA3-PA57 "Long Timers at FSI Served in Programs of Language Training"] ''Department of State News Letter'' (March 1972): 57.{{Cite journal |last=Frith |first=James R. |title=Progress Report on FSI's Language Training Program |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qgwvAAAAMAAJ&dq=Monique+Cossard&pg=RA3-PA37 |journal=Department of State News Letter |date=1972 |pages=37–40}} She was head of the Early Morning Language Program there, serving full-time government workers.[https://archive.org/details/sim_state-magazine_1968-10_90/page/10/mode/2up?q=Monique+Cossard "Early Morning Language Program: Eye Opener at FSI"] ''Department of State News Letter'' (October 1968): 10-13. She received a [Meritorious Honor Award](/source/Meritorious_Honor_Award) from the State Department in 1965, and she retired from the Foreign Service Institute in 1984."Foreign Service Institute" ''State'' (January1984): 64. ==Publications== Cossard wrote or co-wrote several textbooks for French language learning. * ''French basic course'' (1976, with Robert J. Salazar){{Cite book |last1=Cossard |first1=Monique |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QpRNxgEACAAJ |title=French basic course: units 1- revised |last2=Salazar |first2=Robert J. |date=1976 |publisher=Foreign Service Institute, Department of State |language=fr}} * ''French: Basic Course Units 13-24 Revised'' (1977, with Robert J. Salazar){{Cite book |last1=Cossard |first1=Monique |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r8pIAQAAMAAJ&q=Monique+Cossard |title=French: Basic Course Units 13-24 Revised |last2=Salazar |first2=Robert J. |date=1977 |publisher=U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Institute |language=fr}} * ''Official Foreign Service Institute French Language Course'' (1994){{Cite book |last=Cossard |first=Monique |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LXR9wgEACAAJ |title=Official Foreign Service Institute French Language Course |date=1994 |publisher=Languages & Literature Incorporated |isbn=978-1-57050-001-5 |language=en}} * ''French Sentences Vol.1: English & French'' (with Robert J. Salazar and Nik Marcel){{Cite book |last1=Marcel |first1=Nik |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=12ooBAAAQBAJ&q=Monique+Cossard |title=French Sentences Vol.1: English & French |last2=Cossard |first2=Monique |last3=Salazar |first3=Robert |publisher=2Language Books |language=en}} * ''French Sentences Vol.2: English & French'' (with Robert J. Salazar and Nik Marcel){{Cite book |last1=Marcel |first1=Nik |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v6woBAAAQBAJ&q=Monique+Cossard |title=French Sentences Vol.2: English & French |last2=Cossard |first2=Monique |last3=Salazar |first3=Robert |publisher=2Language Books |language=en}} * ''Mastering French: Hear It, Speak It, Write It, Read It'' (1985, with Robert J. Salazar){{Cite book |last=Cossard |first=Monique |url=http://archive.org/details/masteringfrenchh0000coss |title=Mastering French : hear it, speak it, write it, read it |date=1985 |publisher=Woodbury, N.Y. : Barron's |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-8120-2204-9}} ==Personal life== Monique Desvaux married Pierre Cossard in 1947. They had a son, Pierre-Yves. Her first husband before 1951. In 1997, she married again, to journalist and editor Frank Landt Dennis. He died in 2002. She died in 2023, at the age of 101.[https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/falls-church-va/monique-cossard-11255058 Obituary: Monique J. Cossard], Dignity Memorial, Falls Church, Virginia. ==References== {{reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Cossard, Monique}} Category:1921 births Category:2023 deaths Category:American educators Category:American textbook writers Category:American women centenarians Category:French emigrants to the United States Category:People from Val-de-Marne --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Monique Cossard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique_Cossard) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique_Cossard?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.