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Geneviève Dreyfus-Sée, (or Geneviève Sée) born Geneviève Émilie Bechmann on April 3, 1904 in Paris and died on November 24, 1997 in the same city, was an instructor of new education, architect, writer, historian, illustrator, documentary filmmaker, and French lecturer.

Better known under the pseudonym of Amélie Dubouquet, she writes and illustrates works of active pedagogy, autobiographical stories, and children's literature. Very prolific, she signs '''“G. Dreyfus-Sée” her writings as an architect, “Geneviève Sée” her works as an art historian, and “Geneviève D. Sée'''” her books on the war of 1870.

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The eldest daughter of the architect Lucien Bechmann and Germaine née Kapferer, she was ranked first and won the Levylier Prize in the architecture admission competition for the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1923  ( Deglane, Nicod and Mathon  workshops ). She became a DPLG architect in 1934  . As an architect, she gravitated towards circles close to the Espace  group, founded in 1951 by André Bloc and Félix Del Marle.

In 1925, she interrupted her studies to marry the industrialist Albert Dreyfus-Sée and moved to Valenciennes. She decides not to send their five children to school, but sets up a “school” in the countryside, with a few animals (“Noah's Ark”). She develops there a “pedagogy of the object” based on a spontaneous empiricism, where the child ends up becoming the educator of another child.

She presented her learning books, signed "Amélie Dubouquet", at the 1935 International Exhibition and obtained immediate recognition from pioneers of new education  : Célestin Freinet , Roger Cousinet  ,  , the Dutchman Kees Boeke  ,  ,  ,  , as well as the philosopher Emmanuel Mounier  . Between conferences and symposia on active education methods, it is now a recognized member of the new education movement.. She will report on the years of Noah's Ark in her book Inexperience or the Child Educator, which will resonate with a wide audience.

Injune 1940, she fled to the free zone with her family and found refuge in the Dordogne, where she became a farmer. In the spring of 1944, Albert Dreyfus-Sée was shot by the German army in a reprisal operation against the Resistance fighters. The family is dispersed and hidden until the end of the war  . His third daughter, Jacqueline, stricken with cancer, died in 1949. Her books, La Maison des collines and La Vie interior des enfants, evoke these family dramas.

After the war, his attempt to reconstitute a village of deported children in the North on the model of the Pestalozzi children's village, in Trogen  , pointed it out to André Bloc , director of L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui. Back in Paris, she wrote articles and edited special issues in avant-garde architecture journals while continuing her educational research. She publishes extensively, in particular in L'École nouvelle française, a journal founded by Roger Cousinet , and develops tools for active pedagogy , some of which are in Braille .. “Amélie Dubouquet” became a household name in children's literature when she joined the Père Castor collections.

Her approach as an architectural theorist will continue in the writing of art history books on the cities of ancient Egypt and on Romanesque art. She writes and directs documentaries about cathedrals. His latest literary publications deal with the history of the siege of Paris and the invention of airmail, stories that rocked his childhood.