What is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry?
{{Infobox Writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox Writer/doc]] --> | image=Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.jpg | birth_name = Antoine de Saint Exupéry | birth_date = {{birth date|1900|6|29|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Lyon]], France | death_date = {{death date and age|1944|7|31|1900|6|29|df=yes}} | death_place = Offshore, south of [[Marseille]], France | occupation = Aviator, Writer | nationality = French | period = 1929–1948 (posthumous) | genre = Autobiography, Belles-Lettres, Children's Literature | spouse = [[Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry|Consuelo Gómez Carillo de Saint-Exupéry]], (1931-death) | signature = Antoine de Saint-Exupéry signature.svg }} '''Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry''',<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schiff |first1=Stacy |author-link=Stacy Schiff |title=Saint-Exupéry : a biography |date=2006 |publisher=Henry Holt |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8050-7913-5 |edition=1st Owl books}}</ref> simply known as '''de Saint-Exupéry''' ({{IPAc-en|UK|ˌ|s|æ̃|t|ɪ|ɡ|ˈ|z|uː|p|ɛr|i}},<ref>{{Cite Oxford Dictionaries|Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de|accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref> {{IPAc-en|US|-|ɡ|z|uː|p|eɪ|ˈ|r|iː}},<ref>{{Cite American Heritage Dictionary|Saint-Exupéry|accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref> {{IPA-fr|ɑ̃twan də sɛ̃t‿ɛɡzypeʁi|lang}}; 29 June 1900&nbsp;– 31 July 1944), was a [[France|French]] [[writer]] and [[pilot]]. He wrote many stories that became famous, including ''[[The Little Prince]]'' (original: Le petit prince, 1943), ''Night Flight'' (original: Vol de nuit, 1931), and ''Wind, Sand and Stars'' (original: Terre des hommes, Land of People, 1939). Saint-Exupéry did not return from a reconnaissance flight near [[Marseille]], in 1944. A fisherman found Saint Exupery's silver bracelet near Marseille, in 1998. Two years later, the motor of the plane was found nearby. ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Exupery, Antoine de}} [[Category:1900 births]] [[Category:1944 deaths]] [[Category:French autobiographers]] [[Category:Children's writers]] [[Category:French Air Force]]