Antoine de St Exupéry was a pilot of the airmail company Aéropostale linking France to Argentina and Chile, and a writer.
His world famous novel, "The Little Prince", which he wrote in 1943 while he was in New York, is the most translated book in the world (over 220 langages).
In 1931 he got married in the Nice city hall with Consuelo Gomez, the young widow of a very wealthy man from Guatemala. They lived in her house, "El Mirador". We are not sure where exactly this house was. According to one source, it was in Cimiez, but according to an other one it was in Fabron, near Mount Rabeau. Contact us if you have information about the location of the villa.
Although he was too old to fight, St Exupéry volunteered to fight the nazis during WWII. He was shot down during a observation flight, near Marseilles, over the sea, the 31st of July 1944. The wreck of his aircraft was found a few years ago, and his bracelet too.
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