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Pierre Capretz was a French educator and author who is best known for creating the French language learning program, French in Action. He was born on 30 January 1925 in Mazamet, France. He studied at the University of Toulouse and the Sorbonne in Paris. Capretz was a professor of French at Yale University from 1965 to 1991. He was the founder and director of the Yale French Language Institute, which he established in 1967. He was also the author of several books on French language and culture, including French in Action: A Beginning Course in Language and Culture, which was first published in 1982. Capretz was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1988 and the Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 1991. He died on 28 April 2014 in New Haven, Connecticut, at the age of 89.

Popular As Pierre Jean Capretz
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Age 89 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 30 January, 1925
Birthday 30 January
Birthplace Mazamet, France
Date of death (2014-04-01) Aix-en-Provence, France
Died Place Aix-en-Provence, France
Nationality France

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Pierre Jean Capretz (30 January 1925 – 2 April 2014) was a French educator and writer, noted for his audio-visual methods for teaching French. A graduate of the University of Paris, he began teaching French in 1949 at the University of Florida and joined the faculty of Yale University in 1956, eventually becoming Director of the Language Laboratory and then Director of the Language Development Studio. He is best known as the creator and host of the PBS television series French in Action. He received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Middlebury College in August 1993. He died in 2014 at the age of 89.