Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (June 29 1900 – July 31 1944) was a French writer and aviator.

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• Saint-Exupéry and Consuelo were portrayed by Bruno Ganz and Miranda Richardson in the movie Saint-Ex: The Story Teller.
• Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry wrote The Tale of the Rose a year or two after his disappearance, with the pain of loss still fresh in her heart, then put the manuscript away in a trunk. Two decades after her death in 1979, the manuscript finally came to light when José Martinez-Fructuoso, who was her heir and worked for her for many years, and his wife, Martine, discovered it in the trunk. Alan Vircondelet, author of a biography of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, edited it, improving her French and dividing it into chapters. Its publication in France in 2000, a full century after Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's birth on June 29, 1900, became a national sensation. It has been translated into sixteen languages. The heroic fighter pilot now has to make room for the impassioned new voice of his wife, who in the fifty years since his death has been virtually overlooked.
• Saint-Exupéry is commemorated by a plaque in the Panthéon.
• Until the euro was introduced in 2002, his image appeared on France's 50-franc note.