Odette Teissier du Cros

Odette Teissier du Cros ( Cololian, 1906 – 30 January 1997) was a French ethnologist, who founded and was the first curator (1963–83) of the (Cévennes Museum) in Le Vigan.

Biography Odette Cololian was the only daughter of Dr. , a psychiatrist, the first adherent trained by Professor Jean-Martin Charcot at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris. Initially planning to make a career in medicine, she turned later to ethnology, a new discipline at that time.

In 1922, she met Louis Teissier du Cros a native of Aulas, at Bois de Boulogne in Paris. The couple married shortly before World War II.

In 1936, she met with and Georges Henri Rivière, who were organizing the Musée national des Arts et Traditions Populaires Teissier attended École du Louvre and joined Rivière's museum team in 1937. The Cévennes Museum was inaugurated on 5 September 1963, in the presence of several personalities including Georges Henri Rivière, André Chamson, and Claude Lévi-Strauss. With the assistance of Durand-Tullou, Teissler collected the objects that for the museum's collection, which include archaeology, ethnology, history, literature, and textiles pieces. Biographical panels created in her honour were dedicated at the Cévenol Museum on 26 July 2013.

Awards and honours Knight, Legion of Honour, 26 February 1978 Knight, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 8 February 1968 Medal, , 10 September 1972 Corresponding member, , 8 June 1978

Selected works Le Musée cévenol : Le Vigan, Gard, Le Vigan, Musée cévenol, 1980