400 French schools abroad. In 1985, he was honored as a Knight, in the French National Order of Merit, and in March 1986, he was appointed as Advisor in the Cabinet of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs. In May 1989, he was elected president, chief executive officer, of the Lycée Français de New York, an American institution founded in 1935 whose mission was to provide children of French expatriates, American families and children from many nations a French curriculum with a solid American component. From 1995 until 2001, he was also President of the Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones en Amérique (SPFFA), an American foundation established in 1904 in New York City. In recognition of his contributions and long-term commitment to French culture and education in France, in the United States and abroad, he was appointed as an Officer of the Palmes Académiques in 1993 and received as a Knight in the National Order of the French Legion of Honor in 1994. During his second stay in New York, he was a regular voluntary contributor in France-Amérique. He wrote the first article in French about the American sculptor Seward J. Johnson Jr. whom he had met in the 1970s. In 2003, he wrote the first in-depth study of Seward Johnson's "impressionist" works in three-dimensions, inspired by French Impressionists, which were and still are installed at Grounds For Sculpture in New Jersey.<ref>Grounds For Sculpture- 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, NJ 08619 https://www.groundsforsculpture.org</ref> In 2002, the Quai d'Orsay had appointed him head of a team of five French independent experts to conduct an evaluation of the French comprehensive policy of cooperation between France and Bulgaria, from 1991 to 2001. In 2004, he joined the French section of the Franco-British Council and was its Secretary General from 2006 to 2011. In 2011 he was elected Secretary General of the Comité d'Aménagement du 7ème Arrondissement , in Paris and since 2016, he has been its president. At the request of The Seward Johnson Atelier (TSJA), in New Jersey, he translated from French into English Créatures de Bronze, sculptures de Seward Johnson, a book which he had written in France in 2017 on the artist Seward Johnson and, in 2019, updated versions of the book were released successively in the US by TSJA - in English in April, and in French in December, shortly before Seward Johnson's death, on March 10, 2020. In April