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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.
science · French writer and aviator (1900–1944) · aircraft pilot · novelist · children's writer · writer · journalist · illustrator · philosopher · poet · inventor · also Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Antoine de St. Exupery, Saint-Exupery, Saint-Exupéry, Antoine Marie Roger, Vicomte de Saint-Exupéry
Born 29 June 1900 · Died 31 July 1944 · Q2908
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OkDiario: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, autor de ‘El Principito’, sobre la felicidad de una mujer: «No depende de los luj...
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Vanity Fair España: Louise de Vilmorin, la escritora musa de Azzedine Alaïa que se enfrentó con Coco Chanel y fue el gran amor de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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El Confidencial: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: "La felicidad de una mujer no está en los lujos ni en la adoración vacía, sino en..."
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ArchDaily: Galería de Los vuelos de Le Corbusier y Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - 3
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La Nación: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, autor de El Principito: “El amor no consiste en mirar al otro sino en mirar juntos en la misma dirección”
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MutualArt.com: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Indiatimes: Love quote of the day by Antoine De Saint-Exupery: “True love is..."
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The Guardian: The Little Prince review – twinkling spin on Saint-Exupéry’s flight of fantasy
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Euronews: 'Le Petit Prince' turns 80: Five facts you didn't know about Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Awarded Retro Hugo Award for Best Novella for The Little Prince (2019).
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The Guardian: Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry review – The Little Prince for grownups
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The Guardian: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Spanish civil war press pass found
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The Guardian: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince illustration up for auction
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The City of Toulouse, France, home of Airbus and the pioneering airmail carrier Aéropostale, in conjunction with the Estate of Saint-Exupéry-d'Agay and the Youth Foundation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, hosted a major exp
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A French journalist from La Provence, who was investigating Saint-Exupéry's death, contacted former Luftwaffe pilots who flew in the area of Marseille, eventually getting an account from Horst Rippert (1922–2013)
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On the anniversary of the aviator's birthday, traces each stage of his life as an airmail pioneer, eclectic intellectual artist, and military pilot
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French officials and investigators from the French Underwater Archaeological Department officially confirmed that the wreckage was from Saint-Exupéry's aircraft
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Stated that he became certain that he was responsible when he learned the location of Saint-Exupéry's wreckage
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And subsequently translated into 16 languages
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Honouring the centenary of the author-aviator's birth
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On the centenary of his birth, in the city where he was born, he was memorialised when the Lyon Satolas Airport was renamed the Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport
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But the cause of the crash remains unknown
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The Government of Quebec and Quebec City added a historical marker to the family home of Charles De Koninck, head of the Department of Philosophy at Université Laval, where the Saint-Exupérys stayed while lecturing in Ca
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The German magazine Der Landser quoted a letter from Luftwaffe reconnaissance pilot Robert Heichele, in which he purportedly claimed to have shot down a P-38 on 31 July 1944
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To formalize their new parent organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland
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The humanitarian organization Terre des hommes, named after Saint-Exupéry's 1939 philosophical memoir Terre des hommes (titled as Wind, Sand and Stars in English), was founded in Lausanne, Switzerland by Edmond Kaiser
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Awarded mort pour la France (1948).
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Awarded Ambassadors' Prize for Citadelle (1948).
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With an 80 franc airmail stamp honouring him (CB1), and later with another stamp honouring both him and airmail pioneer Jean Mermoz, plus the supersonic Concorde passenger airliner, in 1970 (C43)
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Died 1944-07-31.
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“Byłoby mi przykro, gdyby moją książkę traktowano niepoważnie.”
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“Idąc prosto przed siebie nie można zajść daleko…”
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“Mais n’espère rien de l’homme s’il travaille pour sa propre vie et non pour son éternité.”
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Despite being past the maximum age for a war pilot and in declining health
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Due to the removal of a derogatory remark which was made about Hitler (which Gallimard failed to reinsert in subsequent editions after World War II)
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Awarded Croix de guerre 1939–1945 (1940).
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Saint-Exupéry flew a Bloch MB
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And was posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre avec Palme in 1944
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Awarded National Book Award for Nonfiction for Wind, Sand and Stars (1939).
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Awarded Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for Wind, Sand and Stars (1939).
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1939).
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Awarded National Book Award (1939).
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As 'The Elements' in Wind, Sand and Stars)
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Awarded Prix Femina for Night Flight (1931).
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1930).
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His first book, Courrier Sud (Southern Mail) was published
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Saint-Exupéry was transferred to Argentina, where he was appointed director of the Aeroposta Argentina airline
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In a short-lived literary magazine, Le Navire d'Argent (The Silver Ship)
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Saint-Exupéry began his military service as a basic-rank soldier with the 2e Régiment de chasseurs à cheval (2nd Mounted Hunters Regiment) and was sent to Neuhof, near Strasbourg
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Studied at Villa St. Jean International School (1915–1917).
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Studied at Notre Dame de Mongré High School (1914–1915).
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Born 1900-06-29.
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Studied at Lycée Saint-Louis.
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