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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAKA Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupéry

Born: 29-Jun-1900
Birthplace: Lyon, France
Died: 31-Jul-1944
Location of death: Mediterranean Sea
Cause of death: Accident - Airplane
Remains: Missing (body never recovered)

Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author, Aviator

Nationality: France
Executive summary: The Little Prince

Military service: French Army (2nd Regiment of Chasseurs)

Father: Jean de Saint-Exupéry (insurance inspector, d. 1904 stroke)
Mother: Marie de Foscolombe (d. 1972)
Engagement: Louise Leveque de Vilmorin (1923-25)
Wife: Consuelo Suncin Sandoval Zeceña (writer, b. 1901, m. Apr-1931, d. 1979)

    University: École des Beaux-Arts, Paris

    Plane Crash Le Bourget (Jan-1923), fractured skull
    Plane Crash Sahara desert (30-Dec-1935)
    Plane Crash Guatemala (1938), fractured skull
    Croix de Guerre 1940
    French Legion of Honor 1929
    Risk Factors: Smoking

Author of books:
Courrier-Sud (1929, novel, Southern Mail)
Vol de nuit (1931, novel, Night Flight)
Terre des hommes (1939, Wind, Sand, and Stars)
Pilote de Guerre (1942, Flight to Arras)
Lettre à un otage (1943, Letter to a Hostage)
Le Petit Prince (1943, novel, The Little Prince)
Citadelle (1948, notebook, The Wisdom of the Sands)



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