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August 15, 2019Intoute autograph sketches of the 'Little Prince' made by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry were found in an old building in northern Switzerland, where they had been preserved by a real estate magnate among tens of thousands of works of art.

Purchased over 30 years ago at an auction in Switzerland, the drawings had been stored in a cardboard folder and "are in excellent condition," Elisabeth Grossmann, curator of the Foundation for Art, Culture and Culture, told France Presse. story of Winterthour, in the canton of Zurich. "However, many other works are in bad shape," he added.

Three drawings related to the 'Little Prince': the drinker on his planet, the boa that digests an elephant accompanied by handwritten notes and the little prince and the fox; there is also a poem illustrated with a small drawing and a love letter addressed to his wife Consuelo.