Elvire was for 20 years a semiprofessional basketball player, first in the Paris region and later on in the North, Normandy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Occitanië. In parallel, she obtained a bachelor’s degree in Modern Literature and a master’s in Language sciences specializing in the teaching of French as a foreign language. She worked in colleges as a teaching assistant and as a professor of Modern Literature. After her sports career, she moved to Copenhagen where she started teaching French. Now for a year she lives in Amsterdam, where she shares her love of the French language and culture with our students.