Pierre Capretz

Pierre Jean Capretz (1925–2014) was a French educator and writer renowned for developing audio-visual methods for teaching French, most notably as the creator and host of the PBS television series French in Action. He taught at Yale University for nearly five decades, serving as Director of the Language Laboratory and Director of the Language Development Studio. Capretz received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Middlebury College in 1993 and died in Aix-en-Provence, France, at the age of 89.