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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — Aviator and writer, 1900–1944
An Aéropostale line pilot turned writer, exiled in the United States until 1943, he obtained a return to a reconnaissance squadron and did not come back from a mission flown from Corsica to prepare the landing in Provence. The wreck of his aircraft was found off Marseille more than half a century later. (Editorial synthesis)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born on 29 June 1900. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyon. (source: Larousse)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry died on 31 July 1944. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Recorded work of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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