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Meet the Little Prince

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry —The Little Prince and the Fox, study for The Little Prince 1942 or 1943 Watercolor and ink on paper Stiftung für Kunst Kultur und Geschichte, Winterthur © Coll.

Estate of Saint Exupéry–d'Agay SKKG 2021

By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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The Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris is offering an exceptional exhibition until June 26 around the book "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

For the first time, part of the original manuscript of the book is exhibited in France around unpublished pieces from the work of the writer-aviator.

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He is currently the only known inhabitant of asteroid B612.

But his story is known all over the world.

A young boy with blond hair, scarf in the wind, become the friend of an airman who broke down in the desert, does that mean anything to you?

“The Little Prince” of course, a timeless masterpiece of literature, the most translated book in the world after the Bible and the Koran.

The book was published in the United States in 1943. It was released in France three years later.

For the first time, the original manuscript is exhibited in France with more than 600 other pieces, brought together in a major exhibition that takes us - in words and drawings - in the footsteps of the child of light and his brilliant creator, whose the humanist message continues to resonate always and everywhere.

The opportunity to discover or rediscover the work and career of the most famous writer-aviator on the planet, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

The exhibition "Meeting the Little Prince" is to be visited in Paris, at the Museum of Decorative Arts until June 26, 2022.

Report:

 The pages of the manuscript of the "Little Prince" were lent by the prestigious Morgan Library in New York.

The precious manuscript crossed the Atlantic from New York-Kennedy Airport to Paris-Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, not in an Aéropostale plane but in an Air France Airbus.

Our correspondent in New York

attended the big departure.

An original watercolor of the manuscript of The Little Prince kept at the Morgan Library in New York, produced by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Some original drawings by Saint-Ex have never been revealed to the general public.

February 1, 2022 in New York.

© Carrie Nooten

Morgan Library curator Philip Palmer shows Thomas Rivière for the first time the pages of the manuscript of his great-great-uncle, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, on February 1, 2022 in New York.

© Carrie Nooten

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