oet, antoe de sat-exuery nveyed his books the solitude and ystic

grandeur of the early days of flight he described dangero adventures the

skies and also wrote the whisical children's fable 'the little rce'

antoe-arie-roger de sat-exuery was born on june 29, 1900, lyon, france

the 1920s he heled establish airail routes overseas durg world war ii he

flew as a ilitary rennaissance ilot after the gerans ouied france 1940,

he escaed to the united states he rejoed the air force north africa 1943

durg what was to have been his fal rennaissance ission over the diterranean

sea, he died when his ne was shot down on july 31, 1944

sat-exuery's first book, 'southern ail', was about the life and death of an

airail ilot it was ublished french 1929 other books cde 'night

flight' (1931), about the first airle ilots, and 'd, sand, and stars' (1939),

which he describes his feelgs durg flights over the desert

'the little rce' (1943), which a way is really a children's book for

grown-us, was written durg sat-exuery's stay the united states