The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

After the fall of France (1940), he left for the United States he remained there until 1943, when he resumed flying with his former squadron in the Mediterranean theatre. In 1939, despite permanent disabilities resulting from serious flying accidents, he became a military reconnaissance pilot. In the 1930s he worked as a test pilot, a publicity attaché for Air France, and a reporter for Paris-Soir. In 1926 he joined the Compagnie Latécoère in Toulouse and helped establish airmail routes over northwest Africa, the South Atlantic, and South America. In 1921 he was conscripted into the French air force, and he qualified as a military pilot a year later. A poor student, he failed the entrance examination to the École Navale and then studied architecture for several months at the École des Beaux-Arts. Saint-Exupéry came from an impoverished aristocratic family.

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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry