Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

French writer and aviator (1900–1944)

Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 – c. 31 July 1944), known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (UK: , US: ; French: [ɑ̃twan də sɛ̃t‿ɛɡzypeʁi]), was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator. Born in Lyon to an aristocratic family, Saint-Exupéry trained as a commercial pilot in the early 1920s, working airmail routes across Europe, Africa, and South America.

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