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Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-44) French aviator and writer of the fable Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) pictured on the left, on French paper currency.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

French author
Also known as: Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupéry
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Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry (born June 29, 1900, Lyon, France—died July 31, 1944, near Marseille) was a French aviator and writer whose works are the unique testimony of a pilot and a warrior who looked at adventure and danger with a poet’s eyes. His fable Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) has become a modern classic. Saint-ExupĂ©ry came from an impoverished aristocratic family. A poor student, he failed the entrance examination to the École Navale and...

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