Monique is French born from Nice on the French Riviera, her father was Swiss and her mother was French. Monique has a diploma from the Ecole Hoteliere Helen Boucher of Lyon in France. She arrived in Australia in the late sixties, but has been in Tasmania since the mid eighties. Monique has tutored for Adult Education for the last three years, and is very passionate about her native language and about teaching it to others on her spare time.