RICE University : Former French Dept. chair dies at age 94

Madeleine Rousseau-Raaphorst, Rice professor emeritus of French and a former department chair, died June 23 in Salt Lake City. She was 94. She joined the Rice faculty in 1963 after teaching at Texas Southern University and Ohio Wesleyan University. Rousseau-Raaphorst was born in Tours, France. She earned a law degree in Paris and worked as a lawyer for L’Oréal before immigrating with her husband and two small daughters to Houston in 1953.

She was cremated June 27; her ashes were transported to France for burial in the family cemetery plot.

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