Saint-Exupery biography photos

Saint-Exupery biography photos

BIOGRAPHY:
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born on June 29, 1900 in Lyon (France) in a family of French gentry will instill fundamental values ​​that make him a great humanist. After doing his military service in aviation, was hired in 1926 in order to make Aeropostal mail transport on flights between Europe and Africa. Since 1929, guarantees airmail links in South America, there is going to make finding his wife, Consuelo Gomez Sandoval Suncin, and write their first hit, "Night Flight." Devoting an increasingly large part of writing Antoine de Saint Exupéry, following the bankruptcy airmail since World War II devastated Europe, part of living in the U.S. where he will write his chief work, "the Little Prince." Published in 1943, the philosophical and poetic tale of summer means far more than 160 languages. In 1944, Saint Exupéry resumed service in making aviation reconnaissance missions. It is then one of its missions, 31 July 1944 his aircraft was damaged in the Mediterranean. The ruins of his plane, found the large island of Riou, were identified in 2004.
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Found out who killed the creator of The Little Prince

Germany's Horst Rippert, 88, had admitted being the gunman who shot down the plane that led the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in 1944 and whose body has never been found
The man told the daily La Provence published today by the end of that mystery, thanks to research work carried out by two Frenchmen, a diver and an expert in search of aircraft lost during the war.

Saint-Exupéry took off on July 31, 1944 from its base on the island of Corsica for a reconnaissance mission aboard a plane "P38 Lightning," but never returned.

In 1998 a fisherman found in their nets a bracelet that belonged to the author of The Prince and six years later the wreckage was found off the coast of Marseille but it was clear the case.

"You can stop looking. It was I who shot down Saint-Exupéry," Rippert said when he was spotted by French researchers, as saying.

The German driver had two weeks of service on the southern coast of France when on the morning of July 31, 1944 identified a "Lightning 38" and went to the appliance.

According to the story he has done, Ripper followed the French plane and hit him with several hits, after which it was falling on the water, but did not realize what had happened to the pilot.

"It was then when I knew it was Saint-Exupéry. I was hoping that it was not him, because in our youth we had read his books and adored," said the now octogenarian Rippert, who after World War II was a journalist in the chain ZDF television.

The Prince is one of the books sold worldwide and has been translated into more than one hundred languages.

Source: Reuters