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Le Petit Prince voyage
12 pages, Paperback
Published May 29, 2003
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1,549 books8,743 followersPeople best know French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for his fairy tale
The Little Prince
(1943).
He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.
Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Saint-Exupéry worked in several professions but in 1926 went back and signed as a pilot for Aéropostale, a private airline that from Toulouse flew mail to Dakar, Senegal. In 1927, Saint-Exupéry accepted the position of airfield chief for Cape Juby in southern Morocco and began his first book, a memoir, called Southern Mail and published in 1929.
He then moved briefly to Buenos Aires to oversee the establishment of an Argentinean mail service, returned to Paris in 1931, and then published Night Flight , which won instant success and the prestigious Prix Femina. Always daring Saint-Exupéry tried from Paris in 1935 to break the speed record for flying to Saigon. Unfortunately, his plane crashed in the Libyan Desert, and he and his copilot trudged through the sand for three days to find help. In 1938, a second plane crash at that time, as he tried to fly between city of New York and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, seriously injured him. The crash resulted in a long convalescence in New York.
He published Wind, Sand and Stars , next novel, in 1939. This great success won the grand prize for novel of the academy and the national book award in the United States. Saint-Exupéry flew reconnaissance missions at the beginning of the Second World War but went to New York to ask the United States for help when the Germans occupied his country. He drew on his wartime experiences to publish Flight to Arras and Letter to a Hostage in 1942.
Later in 1943, Saint-Exupéry rejoined his air squadron in northern Africa. From earlier plane crashes, Saint-Exupéry still suffered physically, and people forbade him to fly, but he insisted on a mission. From Borgo, Corsica, on 31 July 1944, he set to overfly occupied region. He never returned.
He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.
Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Saint-Exupéry worked in several professions but in 1926 went back and signed as a pilot for Aéropostale, a private airline that from Toulouse flew mail to Dakar, Senegal. In 1927, Saint-Exupéry accepted the position of airfield chief for Cape Juby in southern Morocco and began his first book, a memoir, called Southern Mail and published in 1929.
He then moved briefly to Buenos Aires to oversee the establishment of an Argentinean mail service, returned to Paris in 1931, and then published Night Flight , which won instant success and the prestigious Prix Femina. Always daring Saint-Exupéry tried from Paris in 1935 to break the speed record for flying to Saigon. Unfortunately, his plane crashed in the Libyan Desert, and he and his copilot trudged through the sand for three days to find help. In 1938, a second plane crash at that time, as he tried to fly between city of New York and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, seriously injured him. The crash resulted in a long convalescence in New York.
He published Wind, Sand and Stars , next novel, in 1939. This great success won the grand prize for novel of the academy and the national book award in the United States. Saint-Exupéry flew reconnaissance missions at the beginning of the Second World War but went to New York to ask the United States for help when the Germans occupied his country. He drew on his wartime experiences to publish Flight to Arras and Letter to a Hostage in 1942.
Later in 1943, Saint-Exupéry rejoined his air squadron in northern Africa. From earlier plane crashes, Saint-Exupéry still suffered physically, and people forbade him to fly, but he insisted on a mission. From Borgo, Corsica, on 31 July 1944, he set to overfly occupied region. He never returned.
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March 17, 2015
J'aime ce livre parce que les adultes sont bêtes et les enfants sont très agréables et je pense que je suis un enfant.
March 24, 2020
Para este libro solo puedo citar las palabras de mi preceptora del colegio: "es un libro mágico porque depende en la etapa que lo leas se vuelve un libro diferente que te deja nuevas enseñanzas" Y si, no podría estar más de acuerdo. Tengo que darle una tercer re leida. La primera vez que lo leí fue a los ocho años, la segunda a los diecisiete para la clase de filosofía y ya entendí otras cosas muy distintas y preste atención a otras cosas que en su momento había pasado por alto. Creo que es un libro que si lo lees cada cinco años le podés encontrar una vuelta de tuerca diferente.
No puedo dar una reseña objetiva de un libro que me marcó tanto así que solo voy a decir que amo con locura esta obra, que hizo volar mi imaginación de chica , que me reconecto con la niña que intentaba escapar durante mi adolescencia e hizo reflexionar sobre algunas curiosidades sobre las relaciones y conmovió con el final. Lei la copia que era de mi padre y fue la que siempre tuve hasta el momento. Creí que era momento de devolverlo porque todo el mundo para mí sin excepción debe leer este libro y guardarlo en su corazón ya que sus lecciones pueden ayudar a formar buenos sentimientos en los corazones en dónde siembra sus raíces. Cuando tenga mi copia volveré a leerlo, a reír,a llorar y abrazar esa bella historia.
No puedo dar una reseña objetiva de un libro que me marcó tanto así que solo voy a decir que amo con locura esta obra, que hizo volar mi imaginación de chica , que me reconecto con la niña que intentaba escapar durante mi adolescencia e hizo reflexionar sobre algunas curiosidades sobre las relaciones y conmovió con el final. Lei la copia que era de mi padre y fue la que siempre tuve hasta el momento. Creí que era momento de devolverlo porque todo el mundo para mí sin excepción debe leer este libro y guardarlo en su corazón ya que sus lecciones pueden ayudar a formar buenos sentimientos en los corazones en dónde siembra sus raíces. Cuando tenga mi copia volveré a leerlo, a reír,a llorar y abrazar esa bella historia.
July 7, 2019
ممتع 😍
May 30, 2024
Read the book but with a closely similar cover but a different translator/translation that isnt available on this app. He was an awesome kid 😔
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