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The Little Prince
Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) pictured on a French stamp, circa 1998.
The Little Prince was originally published in French as Le Petit Prince in 1943. Both French- and English-language versions of the novella were released in April of that year, though the book did not appear in France until 1946.1