![]() ![]() In December, 1935, he crashed in the Sahara and wandered for several days before being rescued by Bedouins. In 1931, he married Consuelo Gomez Carillo, a Guatemalan divorcée. ![]() He flew airmail routes over Africa, South America and Europe, worked as a test pilot, and reported for Paris-Soir. His first fiancé broke off the engagement after a crash in which Saint-Exupéry fractured his skull. His aviation career was marked by daredevil exploits, great personal and spiritual courage and many accidents. ![]() His first airplane ride was reputedly during the summer of 1912, when he was 12.Ī poor student, he briefly studied architecture, was conscripted into the French air force in 1921 and qualified as a military pilot in 1922. Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyon, France, to an aristocratic, if impoverished, Catholic family. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944) was an aviator and writer whose fable “ Le Petit Prince” (“The Little Prince”) is the fourth most-translated and one of the highest-selling books in the history of publishing. ![]()
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