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Viviane feels honored to take the legacy of her family school forward – she has been running the school for over 40 years now. Her students come from elite families of diplomats, entrepreneurs, lawyers and doctors. She has groomed daughters of kings, sheikhs and presidents. At her school, young girls have been prepared for their roles in future society.

The lessons taught at her school are focused with personalized attention. There are many misconceptions about finishing schools being only for the elite and that they are often an excuse to idle time way. But it isn’t so. Mastering diplomacy, language, table manners, housekeeping and cookery brings out the lady in you and that has always been her promise to make elegant ladies of the young girls who come to her family run school. Here style is not taught, it is a lived. As the head of the school, she has touched the lives of many families. Grooming the girl changes the generations ahead and before her. The students take back a lot more than she can teach them. The bonds forged with her are so deep that they are forever. The sense of respect, the feeling of awe and the inspiration she gives is so beautiful that one can only try to not fumble. She is a stern teacher – she believes in delivering the best.

At Institute Villa Pierrefeu, different kinds of courses and programmes are offered. Students sometimes even come back for refresher courses, some join back as teachers to give back what they have learnt. For the convenience of students, she also arranges for home school and tailor made seminars. For her, it all about being the change to bring about change.

In many ways she is like the Alps, she is pure, she is known and people from afar know of her being. She is also calm and serene with so many admirers. She stands tall and unchallenged in her work because etiquette is beyond books and lessons to her. It is an inheritance, it is a legacy.

Like a mother, she has equipped her students with the tools to accept different cultures, respect differences, be tolerant and grow as a person from within. Her contribution has been to the world at large. She is the reason many corporate houses are now homes. She adds the glow of self-confidence to young lives and that reflects in the softness of her smile and the content eyes…