Anne spent her childhood in Aix-en-Provence and studied at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Marseille. After working as a graphic designer and then as an art director, she decided to spread her wings about ten years ago to become an author and illustrator. She has taught art and design — notably at the Gobelins School — and continues to practice and teach natural painting techniques, both on large and small scales.

A lover of science and nature, she collaborates with INSERM and various associations to create projects and books that highlight environmental issues, animal welfare, and all kinds of fascinating creatures. Through her illustrated blog Arsenic et petites bretelles, she comments on current events — increasingly through the voices of her whimsical, caffeine-fueled hens.

In 2019, she wrote L’Âge bleu, a humorous graphic novel of ecological anticipation about the crisis in the ocean depths, published by Buchet/Chastel. The book received the Mouans-Sartoux Award for Environmentally Committed Literature and the 2020 Artemisia Environment Prize.

In 2022, Le Journal anthropique de la cause animale was released by Futuropolis, created in collaboration with several environmental organizations such as Bloom, MIRACETI, and Humanité et Biodiversité. In 2023 came Mémoires d’un cétacé: Biology, Ecology and Conservation (Delcourt) and Sefardim: The Epic Journey of a Jewish Family Over 3,000 Years.

In 2024, she illustrated Joseph Kessel’s Le Lion for Futuropolis/Gallimard and received a grant from the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region to support its creation.

In March 2025, Le meilleur des deux mondes will be published, co-edited by Futuropolis and the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, co-authored with Alice Desbiolles. Several other books are currently in development, always driven by her desire to share an optimistic and contemplative vision of the world of tomorrow.

In 1492, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, the first Catholic kings of Spain, ordered all Jews to leave their kingdom. In 2015, King Felipe VI of Spain apologized and offered a form of return to Jewish families expelled 500 years earlier. The opportunity to retrace 3000 years of family history.Of Jewish origin through her father, Anne Defréville questions the meaning of her story. His story also speaks of his desire to find a Spanish nationality, and of the places of memory and documents which evoke his origins. Anne Defréville questions Jewish identity, which for her remained largely silent for a long time. This story woke her up, questioned her. She carries it within her, like a multitude of other stories hidden in the genes.