FRENCH LANGUAGE SALON - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Director
• Founder
• Our Director

François Thibaut, the founder, director, and master teacher behind the Cercle Franco Americain/French Language Salon is an exceptional educator with decades of experience teaching French to both children and adults, in-person and remotely. He has been featured in publications such as The Associated Press, New York Family, The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN among others. In 2019, Fran çois Thibaut was awarded the prestigious Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques (Order of Academic Palms) by the French Ministry of National Education, an award given to educators for contributing to the expansion of the French language and culture in the world. He has created countless language education materials for both children and adults, including the award-winning Professor Toto Multimedia Language Education Series. Director François Thibaut is a self-taught language researcher and educator who has developed successful French language teaching methods for children and adults. In 2019, he was honored with the Chevalier de l' Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Order of Academic Palms) for his contribution to French language and culture. , is invested in every student at the Salon. He developed the proprietary Thibaut Technique, a method that combines visual memory and emotions to engage students and give them an intuitive sense of conversational French. He not only creates the lesson plans and trains teachers in the Thibaut technique, but also teaches students himself and works with the other teachers to support their progress.