She worked first teaching history and geography to secondary school age children.

[1] She is known for her interest in the history of Italy and particularly her knowledge of Venice in the late Middle Ages.

She is married to another historian Professor Denis Crouzet.

[2] In 2005, one of her books, "Venice Triumphant: The Horizons of a Myth", was published in English - thanks to a translation by Lydia Cochrane.

In 2012, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ghent.