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Antoine de Saint Exupery was born
in Lyon, France on 29 June 1900. 
Exupery
with his brother and sisters (4th from left)
After finishing schools at Sainte-Croix-du-Mans and Switzerland
he tried to join the Navy, but he couldn't enter the Naval Academy. Exupery
joined the french air force in Strasbourg in 1921 as mechanic.
Five years after in the age of
twenty-six that he became pilot of mail service from Toulouse to Dakar,
and he was named a chef of Port Juby office. Exupery flew to many South
African cities, as well at during Spanish Civil war, for several years
until 1938 when, after german troops occupied France, he moved to United
States.
Exupery
as mail pilot
His experiences
during these flights and his numerous crashes in then still unstable planes
are well described in Night Flight (Vol de Nuit, 1931), Southern
Mail (Courrier Sud, 1929), Flight to Arras (Pilote de Guerre,
1942) Airman's Odyssey, Wisdoms of the Sands, Letter to
a Hostage (Lettre à un Otage, 1943) and Wind, Sand and Stars
(Terre des Hommes, 1939).
During his life in USA, he
wrote several novels among them one of his best knowing one, The
Little Prince (Le Petit Prince). That book written in New York
City (1940) is, according to some sources, third most readed book in the
world in this century. Holy Bible and muslim Ku'ran are first two.
After beginning of World War
II, Exupery moved back to France and joined army again. At 31 July 1944,
during of one of his mission over Mediterranean Sea his plain was shot
down.
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Picture of one of his numerous crushes |
Statue of Exupery |
