Marie Gicquel, edited by Solène Delinger 11:59 a.m., February 17, 2022, modified at 12:00 p.m., February 17, 2022
This is the first major exhibition dedicated to the "Little Prince" in France.
The manuscript of Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece is on display at the Museum of Decorative Arts today in Paris.
The opportunity to immerse yourself in the magic of this timeless tale while discovering its most sensational pages...
Under the fake starry sky of the exhibition are thirty priceless pages... They traveled from New York, because it was in the United States that the Little Prince was born in 1942. On this very fine paper, the blond boy with the yellow scarf takes shape and the soul of Saint-Exupéry hovers.
"He always lived with little drawn characters who accompanied him everywhere. And then, one day, these characters crystallize in 'The Little Prince'. We see traces of coffee, we really see the leaves that lived with Saint -Exupéry", explains Anne Monier Vanryb, the curator of the Saint-Exupéry exhibition.
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The Morgan Library in New York, which preserves the manuscript, has loaned the most sensational pages, such as the watercolor representing the Little Prince with his long coat with red lapels.
Other treasures fuel the event, such as Saint-Exupéry's letters, his typewriter or photographs from his childhood.
"This man who is in the world of children, in the world of adults, writer and pilot, but who is also an inventor, economist, mathematician, has an incredible number of facets", enthuses Anne Monier Vanryb on Europe 1. These 650 pieces in total attempt to piece together the puzzle of the enigmatic Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who said of his tale that he had "never written truer stories".