Paying tribute to Saint-Exypéry 78th year missing in action
🛩️ On July 31, 1944, French author of "The Little Prince" Antoine de Saint-Exupéry vanished at sea.
“Le Petit Prince”is known as one of the most translated books in history.
🐑 It has been translated into 446 different languages, including some
without a written form as part of preservation efforts for seriously endangered
languages.
5,755 editors have sold an estimated 140 million copies worldwide. "The
Little Prince" is also widely used to teach French.
🛩️ "The Little Prince" was an American favourite from the start.
Antoine Saint-Exupéry
wrote and illustrated the book in New York, between Long
Island and Manhattan. It was first published in English and French in the United
States by Reynal & Hitchcock in April 1943.
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