Gérard J. Roubichou, a Frenchman who was born in Marseilles on July 11, 1939, and resides in Paris, France, has made significant contributions to French culture and language in various assignments as an educator, administrator, diplomat, and as an art and literary critic in France and abroad, namely in the USA. After graduating in 1963 from École Normale Supérieure de la rue d'Ulm in Paris as an Agrégé de lettres classiques, he taught in Amiens (France). In 1966–1967 he was invited by the University of California, Berkeley to teach contemporary French literature, primarily the French Nouveau Roman (New Novel). In August 1967, he was appointed as a lecturer in French language by the French government at Moscow Lomonosov University in the former Soviet Union, to train Russian teachers of French. In 1969, he returned to the US when he was offered an assistant professorship at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville. In the spring of 1973, he was appointed in New Orleans, Louisiana, by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs as cultural attaché for seven southern states. In cooperation with the local authorities on joint projects, he oversaw cultural, educational and French language training programs, primarily CODOFIL in Louisiana. There, he completed, for the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, his doctoral dissertation on Claude Simon, the French novelist who was not very well known in the 1960s and 1970s. His dissertation, which was the first scholarly work in French on Simon in Europe, was published into a book in 1976. Simon was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1985. Roubichou was promoted in August 1976 to Deputy Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy in the US, in residence in New York City. His mission was to facilitate partnerships between universities and other institutions in France and in the US, and foster exchanges of rising and established French and American leaders in various fields, ranging from the Arts and allied fields, the Humanities, Social Sciences and Economics. Early in 1981, he was transferred to Paris within the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, (Quai d'Orsay), as an Advisor to the Director of Cultural, Scientific and Technical Relations (DGRCT) in charge of all French cultural, educational, scientific and research programs worldwide, and in 1982, he joined a team of diplomats at the Inspection Générale of the Quai d'Orsay, which was responsible for overseeing the operations of French Embassies, including the network of about