After being a journalist for French quality dailies, Le Figaro in Budapest, and Le Monde in Prague, Catherine Monroy was a TV writer for French TV for twenty years. Since then she created a TV show about the French language from France and elsewhere in 2022, Par Monts et Par Mots and is now pursuing her career as a writer (Chantal Thomas, sens dessus dessous, L'art du mensonge, Un ami si dévoué) in Dordogne where she settled down.