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Antoine de Saint Exupery was born in the morning of June 29,1900 at 8 Rue de Peyrat
in Lyons, France. He was baptized the next day as Antoine Jean-Baptiste Marie Roger de Saint Exupery, to
his family he was Tonio
| Can you tell where is The Little Prince here...? |
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| Left to right: Marie-Madeleine,Gabrielle,Francoise,Antoine,Simone |
The Little Prince was growing in Tonio's mind through all his youth
and in different steps of his life as a pilot and writer... In many ways the little character was Tonio's
himself.
In the early times of his first book "Southern Mail"
during his flights to Dakar Antoine met an officer which was very smart, pushy and with a very particular uniform,
his coat was long up to his boots, blue and with golden botons.
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| Saint Ex in WWII 1943 |
Almost simultaneously with the sailing of Saint Exupery to Africa during WWII, after a long exile in United States, came
the publication in english on April 6th 1943 of The Little Prince,
then will be published in France as Le Petit Prince.
This book, so often mistaken for only a childrens book, is in fact a delicate crystallization
of Saint Exupery's philosophy of life.
The book rapidly progresses from its childlike beginning to become
a philosophical fable.
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Many characteristics, preocupations and themes :
The respect of man, death, passion, justice, order, compassion, are first formulated in
Saint Exupery's foreign dispathes and then translated into his literature.
* Even when he is writing a preface, Saint Exupery's lead us to the heart
of the matter: "What is essential? Maybe it is not the exhilaration or the strain or the danger but the point of view
to which this things lift us"
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