Janet Holmes CarperJanet Holmes Carper is a teacher of French at all levels and to all ages. Her teaching career began as an English assistant in the Ecole Normale d'Institutrices in Châteauroux, France, for two years. In a rural Maine high school she was the entire Frnch department. She has also been an editor of French and German textbooks at Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Though French is her second language it is on an equal footing with her first. Janet resides with her husband Tom in Cornish, Maine. Nearly every summer finds them in their 14th-century stone farmhouse in the Loire Valley in France. Read More Read Less