“In 2006 Muriel moved to Mauritius and initially worked as a high school teacher at La Bourdonnais for almost two years, but later became a professor at Alliance Française university lecturing in Economics. Interestingly and to her credit, she saw the first signs of the coming of the current world economic situation back in early 2007. In 2009, following a visit and some advice from a friend who runs a concierge in France, Muriel started a new business, La Conciergerie de Maurice."Born in Paris to French parents, Muriel hailed from a very “European” family,
with german and Italian uncles and a Swiss sister. Educated in Paris, she studied
Turkish, Pachtoun and Farsi at Paris university with a view to working for the
French Foreign Office. However, upon graduating in 1972 she went on an eleven
month tour of Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan with three friends, and spent four of
those months living in the palace grounds of the Shah of Iran in Tehran, during the
winter. When asked what it was like she replied demurely ? “It’s very nice.”
Upon returning to Paris, Muriel and her friends made a documentary about their travels
abroad, on the strength of which she landed a job as a journalist and camera woman for
a French news programme which broadcast on cinemas just before the main movie.
She worked for them for two years. It was in 1975 that Muriel met and fell in love
with her husband Colin, an English computer scientist. They were happily married for
ten years and had four children, Cedric,Alexandra, Barbara and Mary.
Tragically, Colin died at the age of thirty five due to a sports accident and Muriel
was faced with a dramatic and unexpected change in her life. Recalling those events
and asked how she managed,
Muriel shrugged slightly saying, "I coped." She went back to university, this
time in Aix en Provence and Marseille, to study Political Science and Economics &
Management. Shortly afterwards, in 1988, Muriel formed part of a delegation which was
sent to French Guiana in South America to audit the Ariane space rocket programme.
Their mandate was to determine the funds that the project would require to continue
operating, which worked out as something in the region of one thousand million Francs.
Muriel remained there for three years with her children and in their spare time they
visited numerous islands in the Caribbean, such as Martinique and Guadeloupe and
countries such as Venezuela, Peru and Brazil. Returning to the South of France,
Muriel worked for an American company, ICA, for a while as commissioner
of auditing and for Val Adour as a financial manager. She then left France for New
Caledonia, a French island in the South.
Pacific, but the travel time between the two countries was too long and so she
relocated to Reunion. There she was again a financial manager, this time for Sterne
and later became a teacher for the Reunion Chamber of Commerce. In 2006 Muriel moved
to Mauritius and initially worked as a high school teacher at La Bourdonnais for almost
two years, but later became a professor at Alliance Française university lecturing
in Economics. Interestingly and to her credit, she saw the first signs of the coming
of the current world economic situation back in early 2007. In 2009, following a visit
and some advice from a friend who runs a concierge in France, Muriel started a new
business, La Conciergerie de Maurice. The goal of the company is to provide personal
and organisational facilities to organisations and individuals.Whether it is
catering services for a simple meal or a party, or organising corporate transportation
by helicopter, La Conciergerie will endeavour to provide the best services possible.
The company also specialises as a relocation agent and will help with such problems
as finding a place to live, organizing residence and occupation permits and
locating good schools for children.
La-conciergerie-of-mauritius.com has all the information a person might need.
Now a grandmother of four, Muriel enjoys swimming, golf and walking with the
Mauritius Hash House Harriers as well as visiting Reunion and France to see her
children. Her main ambition is to see La Conciergerie become one of the most
important companies in Mauritius and to prove to herself that at over fifty
years of age she still has what it takes to create a flourishing business.
I have no doubt at all that she will be successful.
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