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Born in Peking in 1916 to a Chinese father, an engineer, and a Polish Jewish mother, a writer mother, a writer; she went to school in Paris at the age of 12, studied in England in England and then Belgium, graduating in Brussels in 1938, Simone
Guillissen-Hoa was part of the architectural adventure of the twentieth century.
Caroline Mierop recounts the extraordinary life of this Eurasian woman,
activist, resistance fighter, deportee, single mother and self-employed entrepreneur.
She recalls her friends and her loves, her doubts and her advances, her
and her achievements.