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The Little Prince [Le Petit Prince], is a novella and the most famous work of the French aristocrat, writer, poet and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944). The novella is both the most-read and most-translated book in the French language, and was voted the best book of the 20th century in France. After the outbreak of the Second World War Saint-Exupéry became exiled in North America. In the midst of personal upheavals and failing health, he produced almost half of the writings for which he would be remembered, including a tender tale of loneliness, friendship, love and loss, in the form of a young prince fallen to Earth. An earlier memoir by the author had recounted his aviation experiences in the Sahara Desert, and he is thought to have drawn on those same experiences in The Little Prince. Since its first publication in the United States, the novella has been adapted to numerous art forms and media, including audio recordings, radio plays, live stage, film screen, television, ballet, and operatic works. The Little Prince is a poetic tale, with watercolour illustrations by the author, in which a pilot stranded in the desert meets a young prince fallen to Earth from a tiny asteroid. The story is philosophical and includes social criticism, remarking on the strangeness of the adult world. It was written during a period when Saint-Exupéry fled to North America subsequent to the Fall of France during the Second World War, witnessed first hand by the author and captured in his memoir Flight to Arras. The adult fable, according to one review, is actually "...an allegory of Saint-Exupéry's own life--his search for childhood certainties and interior peace, his mysticism, his belief in human courage and brotherhood.... but also an allusion to the tortured nature of their relationship." Though ostensibly styled as a children's book, The Little Prince makes several observations about life and human nature. For example, Saint-Exupéry tells of a fox meeting the young prince during his travels on Earth. The story's essence is contained in the lines uttered by the fox to The Little Prince: On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. ("One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eyes.") Other key thematic messages are articulated by the fox, such as: Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé. ("You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.") and C'est le temps que tu as perdu pour ta rose qui fait ta rose si importante. ("It is the time you have lost for your rose that makes your rose so important.") The fox's messages are arguably the book's most famous quotations because they deal with human relationships.

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The Little Prince

[Illustrated Edition]

By

Antoine de Exupéry

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Contents

 

Contents

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, officiallyAntoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint Exupéry(29 June 1900– 31 July 1944) was a French aristocrat, writer, poet, and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of several of France's highestliterary awardsand also won the U.S.National Book Award.He is best remembered for his novellaThe Little Prince(Le Petit Prince) and for his lyrical aviation writings, includingWind, Sand and StarsandNight Flight.

Saint-Exupéry was a successful commercial pilot before World War II, workingairmailroutes in Europe, Africa and South America. At the outbreak of war, he joined theFrench Air Force(Armée de l'Air), flying reconnaissance missions untilFrance's armistice with Germanyin 1940. After being demobilised from the French Air Force, he travelled to the United States to persuade its government to enter the war againstNazi Germany. Following a 27-month hiatus in North America, during which he wrote three of his most important works, he joined theFree French Air Forcein North Africa, although he was far past the maximum age for such pilots and in declining health. He disappeared over the Mediterranean on his last assigned reconnaissance mission in July 1944, and is believed to have died at that time.

Prior to the war, Saint-Exupéry had achieved fame in France as an aviator. His literary works – among themThe Little Prince, translated into over 250 languages and dialects – posthumously boosted his stature to national hero status in France.He earned further widespread recognition with international translations of his other works. His 1939 philosophical memoirTerre des hommesbecame the name of amajor international humanitarian group, and was also usedto create the central theme(Terre des hommes—Man and His World).

Youth and aviation

Saint-Exupéry in Toulouse, France, 1933

·Saint-Exupéry was born inLyonto an aristocratic family that could trace its lineage back several centuries. He was the third of five children of theCountessMarie de Fonscolombe andCountJean de Saint Exupéry (1863–1904).His father, an executive of theLe Soleil(The Sun) insurance brokerage, died of a stroke in Lyon'sLa Fouxtrain station before his son's fourth birthday. His father's death would greatly affect the entire family, transforming their status to that of 'impoverished aristocrats'.

·Saint-Exupéry was the third of five children, with three sisters and a younger blond-haired brother, François, who at age 15 would tragically die of rheumatic fever contracted while both were attending theMarianistCollege Villa St. JeaninFribourg, Switzerland, during World War I. Saint-Exupéry attended to his brother, his closest confidant, beside François' death bed, and later wrote that François "...remained motionless for an instant. He did not cry out. He fell as gently as a [young] tree falls", imagery which would much later be recrafted into the climactic ending ofThe Little Prince. At age 17, now the only "man" in the family following the death of his brother, the young author was left as distraught as his mother and sisters, but he soon assumed the mantle of a protector and took to consoling them.

·After twice failing his final exams at a preparatoryNaval Academy(intentionally, some believe), Saint-Exupéry entered theÉcole des Beaux-Artsas anauditorto study architecture for 15 months, again without graduating, and then fell into the habit of accepting odd jobs. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry began his military service as a private soldier with the2e Régiment dechasseursà cheval(2nd Regiment oflight cavalry) and was sent to Neuhof, nearStrasbourg.While there he took private flying lessons and the following year was offered a transfer from the French Army to the French Air Force. He received hispilot's wingsafter being posted to the 37th Fighter Regiment inCasablanca, Morocco. Later, being reposted to the 34th Aviation Regiment atLe Bourgeton the outskirts of Paris, and then experiencing the first of his manyaircraft crashes, Saint-Exupéry bowed to the objections of the family of his fiancée, future novelistLouise Lévêque de Vilmorin, and left the air force to take an office job. The couple ultimately broke off their engagement and he worked at several more odd jobs without success over the next few years.

·By 1926, Saint-Exupéry was flying again. He became one of the pioneers of internationalpostal flight, in the days when aircraft had few instruments. Later he complained that those who flew the more advanced aircraft had become more like accountants than pilots. He workedforAéropostalebetweenToulouseandDakar, and then also became the airline stopover manager for theCape Jubyairfield in the Spanish zone ofSouth Morocco, in theSaharadesert. His duties included negotiating the safe release of downed fliers taken hostage by hostileMoors, a perilous task which earned him his firstLégion d'honneurfrom the French Government.

Writing career

Saint-Exupéry's first novella,L'Aviateur(The Aviator), was published in a short-lived literary magazineLe Navire d'Argent(The Silver Ship).In 1929, his first book,Courrier Sud(Southern Mail) was published; his career as an aviator and journalist was about to begin. That same year, Saint-Exupéry flew theCasablanca—Dakar route.

The 1931 publication ofVol de nuit(Night Flight) established Saint-Exupéry as a rising star in the literary world. It was the first of his major works to gain widespread acclaim and won theprix Femina. The novel mirrored his experiences as a mail pilot and director of theAeroposta Argentinaairline, based inBuenos Aires,Argentina.

The Little Prince

It was after Saint-Exupéry's arrival in the United States that the author adopted the hyphen within his surname, as he was annoyed with Americans addressing him as "Mr. Exupéry".It was also during this period that he authoredPilote de guerre (Flight to Arras), which earned widespread acclaim, andLettre à un otage(Letter to a Hostage), dedicated to the 40 million Frenchliving under Nazi oppression, plus numerous shorter pieces in support of France. The Saint-Exupérys also resided in Quebec City, Canadafor several weeks during the late spring of 1942, during which time they met a precocious eight-year-old boy with blond curly hair, Thomas, the son of philosopherCharles De Koninck, with whom the Saint-Exupérys resided.

After he returned from his stay in Quebec, which had been fraught with illness and stress, the French wife of one of his publishers helped persuade Saint-Exupéry to produce a children's book,hoping to calm his nerves and also compete with the new series ofMary Poppinsstories byP.L. Travers. Saint-Exupéry wrote and illustratedThe Little Princein New York City and the village ofAsharokenin mid-to-late 1942, with the manuscript being completed in October.It would be first published months later in early 1943 in both English and French in the United States, and would only later appear in his native homeland posthumously after theliberation of France, as his works had been banned by the collaborationistVichy Regime.

Literary Works of Author

While not precisely autobiographical, much of Saint-Exupéry's work is inspired by his experiences as a pilot. One notable example is his novella,The Little Prince,a poetic tale self-illustrated in watercolours in which a pilot stranded in the desert meets a young prince fallen to Earth from a tinyasteroid.The Little Princeis a philosophical story, including societal criticism, remarking on the strangeness of the adult world. One biographer wrote of his most famous work: "Rarely have an author and a character been so intimately bound together as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and his Little Prince," and remarking of their dual fates, "...the two remain tangled together, twin innocents who fell from the sky."Saint-Exupéry's notable literary works (published English translations in brackets) are constituted by:

·L'Aviateur(1926) (The Aviator, in the anthologyA Sense of Life)

·Courrier sud(1929) (Southern Mail) – made as a movie in French

·Vol de nuit(1931) (Night Flight) – winner of the fullprix Femina, and made twice as a movie and a TV film, both in English

·Terre des hommes(1939) – winner of theGrand Prix du roman de l'Académie française

·Pilote de guerre(1942) (titled in English as:Flight to Arras) – winner of theGrand Prix Littéraire de l'Aéro-Club de France

·Le petit prince(1943) (The Little Prince), posthumous in France

Chapter 1

“we are introduced to the narrator, a pilot, and his ideas about grown-ups.”

 

Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.

 In the book it said: "Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion."

 I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked like this:

 

I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.

 But they answered: "Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?"

 My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained. My Drawing Number Two looked like this: