Historical marker on the home where Saint-Exupéry lived in Quebec. This period of his life is briefly portrayed in the IMAX film Wings of Courage, by French director Jean-Jacques Annaud.

In 1929, Saint-Exupéry moved to South America, where he was appointed director of the Aeroposta Argentina Company. He became the director of Cape Juby airfield in Río de Oro, Western Sahara. In 1928, he published his first book, Courrier Sud (Southern Mail), and flew the Casablanca/Dakar route. His first story L'Aviateur (The Aviator) was published in the magazine Le Navire d'Argent. He worked on the Aéropostale between Toulouse and Dakar. Later he complained that those who flew the more advanced aircraft were more like accountants than pilots. He became one of the pioneers of international postal flight in the days when aircraft had few instruments and pilots flew by instinct. He later became engaged to the future novelist Louise Leveque de Vilmorin in 1923.īy 1926, he was flying again. His engagement was ultimately broken off, however, and he worked at several jobs over the next few years without success. But his fiancée's family objected, so he settled in Paris and took an office job. The next year, he obtained his license and was offered a transfer to the air force. In 1921, he began his military service in the 2nd Regiment of Chasseurs, and was sent to Strasbourg for training as a pilot. His wife was named Marie de Fonscolombe.Īfter failing his final exams at a preparatory school, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts to study architecture. Jean-Baptiste Marie Roger de Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyon into an old family of provincial nobility, the third of five children of Count Jean de Saint-Exupéry, an insurance broker who died when his famous son was three. Saint-Exupéry disappeared on the night of Jwhile flying on a mission to collect data on German troop movements.

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