Becoming a tour guide
As a graduate of the Ecole du Louvre and holder of the French national tour guide card, I’ll take you on dynamic tours in French and English. With a wealth of experience behind me I can easily guide all types of visitors, especially children, through the maze of Paris great museums, where my passion for French painting flourishes. It’s even said that I know the Louvre like the back of my hand… Always on the lookout for the unusual and the little details, I also offer you to discover some lesser-known monuments and districts that are just as worth a visit.
Guide by vocation
Museums fed my childhood curiosity from an early age. So at the age of 18, studying art history became an obvious choice. Coupled with an appetite for foreign languages, my taste for art would open me up to sharing with visitors from all over the world.
Besides, the guiding profession is rich in exchanges. Each new meeting with you invites me to learn more and to unearth new and captivating information, in the secrets of libraries. A lot of time studying but also walking ! Carried along by an unbridled dynamism, I eat up at leisure the 15 kilometers of galleries of the Louvre as well as the streets of Paris and beyond, to help you discover a heritage that is dear to me.
Ins and outs of the profession
Five years of study at the Ecole du Louvre enabled me to obtain a professional tour guide card, the only way to work in national museums and monuments. In addition, they opened my mind to art from all over the world and from all periods, from Mesopotamia to the Americas, not forgetting Europe. In Paris museums, I sharpened my eye for works of art and, in the process, got to know the Louvre by heart. Moreover I specialized in French painting, from 1500 to 1800, and can easily identify the style of the great painters.
During my master’s degree, I became familiar with the various players in the heritage and museum world, curators, restorers, administrators, etc. My first thesis was about the balance between learning and entertainment for children in museums, and I am now focusing on creating tours whose playfulness enhances the richness of the museum experience. I now have the keys to bringing audiences closer to culture, and it’s through their own experiences that I fully understand their expectations and needs. Eventually, in a municipal cultural department, I worked alongside a contemporary artist with schoolchildren aged 3 to 18, for whom I led exhibition tours, art practice workshops and introductory art history sessions.
With a cheerful narrative style, here I am, for you, an independent guide since February 2025 for my company Artyfacts, with many tour projects in mind for the months and years to come.
