He devoted every moment of his spare time to writing. He was engaged to a young noble lady who also had literary aspirations. Their relationship failed shortly thereafter, and the couple broke off their engagement. Antoine returned to aviation in , at the age of 26, by becoming a mail pilot flying between Toulouse and Dakar. A few years later, he was made the director of an airfield in the Sahara and then of an airmail company in Argentina.
He spared more and more time for writing. At this time, he was already working on his first novel Southern Mail , which, in its final form, would be published in One year later, he moved to Buenos Aires, where he spent a year and a half as the director of Aeroposta Argentina. Night Flight was his first true literary success, receiving the Prix Femina literary prize.
He enjoyed the fame associated with his literary success and was awarded with several literary prizes and awards. All his writings were inspired by his experience as a pilot. His plane crashed in the Libyan Desert in , where he and his co-pilot wandered the desert for five days, without food and water, until they were discovered.
From a literary perspective, his most important work, The Little Prince was published with his own illustrations in New York in The Little Prince regularly draws new readers, which is still one of the most read books in the world, cherished by children and adults alike.
We quote him when we are happy, sad, long for something or look for the truth. His books are veritable gold mines of well-formulated sayings and guidance about all life situations. His writings teach generations about the importance of human purity and the power of human beauty.
All books of the writer convey a pure outlook on life in relation to money, spiritual values and the purpose of life. The classic story of The Little Prince , like all of his other novels, begins with a flying adventure, which continues in the world of poetic imagination, far from reality.
It takes us to a real fantasy world where a mysterious and pure-hearted little boy, the owner of asteroid-planet B, tries to discover and understand his planetary neighbours and the adult world in a naive and childish way. The German occupation forced him to flee from the country for New York, but he returned to Europe to fight for his country.
In , a few weeks before the liberation of Paris, he died on a reconnaissance mission. At the age of 44, before taking him off flying status, he was assigned one last reconnaissance mission to collect intelligence on a German troop in the Rhone Valley.
At night on 31 July , he took off on his last flight and never returned; neither he nor his plane, a Lockheed P Lightning, was found. A woman reported having watched an aircraft crash near the Bay of Carqueiranne around noon on 1 August. Again the theme is the pilot's devotion to duty, and although, as in Courrier Sud, it ends in his death, this is seen not as defeat but as victory, a step forward in man's conquest of his environment. After the French defeat, he went to the United States, where he wrote Pilote de guerre Flight to Arras , published in This is the record of a reconnaissance mission in May , during the German invasion of France, and the author's almost miraculous survival against enormous odds.
Though evidence indicated that he had likely been shot down, the true cause of his death remains unknown. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives.
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