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Antoine Marie Roger de Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyon into an old family of provincial nobility; one of his ancestors fought with the Americans at Yorktown. After failing his final exams at a preparatory school, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts to study architecture. In 1921, he began his military service in the 2nd Regiment of Chasseurs, and was sent to Strasbourg for training as a pilot. The next year, he obtained his license, and was offered a transfer to the air force. But his fiancée's family objected, so he settled in Paris and took an office job. His engagement ultimately broke off, however, and he worked at several jobs over the next few years without success.
By 1926, he was flying again. He became one of the pioneers of international postal flight in the days when aircrafts had few instruments and pilots flew by instinct. Later he complained that those who flew the more advanced aircraft were more like accountants than pilots. He worked on the Aéropostale between Toulouse and Dakar. His first tale L'Aviateur (The Aviator) was published in the magazine Le Navire d'argent. In 1928Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 See also 1928 in aviation 1928 in film 1928 in literature 1928 in mu, he published his first book, Courrier-Sud (Southern Mail), and flew the CasablancaFor the 1942 film, see Casablanca (movie . For the famous Cuban chess player, see Jose Raul Capablanca . Casablanca ( Arabic: , pronounced Dar-al-Baida is a city in western Morocco with an estimated population of 3. Located on the Atlantic Ocean, Casablan/Dakar route. He became the director of Cap Juby airfield in Rio de Oro , SaharaThe Sahara is the world's largest desert, over 3,500,000 sq mi (9,065,000 sq km), located in northern Africa and is 2. 5 million years old. The whole land area of United States of America would fit inside it. Its name Sahara is the Arabic translation of t. In 1929, Saint-Exupéry moved to South AmericaSouth America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. South America is situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. It became attached to North America only recently, geologically speaking, wi, where he was appointed director of the Aeroposta Argentina Company . In 1931, Vol de Nuit (Night Flight), which won the Prix FeminaThe Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine La Vie heureuse (today known as Femina . The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury. The winner is announced on the first Wednesday of November eac, was published. He kept writing and flying until the beginning of the war.
On April 11April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). There are 264 days remaining. Events 1241 Batu Khan defeats Bela IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi 1512 Battle of Ravenna 1713 War of the Spanish Succession ( Queen A, 19311931 is the common year starting on Thursday. see link for calendar) Events January January 4 Female aviator Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa January 6 Thomas Edison submits his last patent application. January 22 Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the, he married Consuelo Suncin Sandoval de Gómez, a widowed Salvadoran artist and writer who was the model for the temperamental Rose in Le Petit Prince. Theirs was a stormy union as Saint-Exupéry traveled frequently and indulged in numerous affairs.
During World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough, he initially flew in the French GC II/33 reconnaissance squadron. Then he would escape to New York City, but came back to fight with the Allies in a squadron based in the Mediterranean. Now age 44, he was about to quit but agreed to one last mission: to collect data on German troop movements in the Rhone River Valley. He took off the night of July 31, 1944, and was never seen again. A lady reported having seen a plane crash around noon of August 1 near the Bay of Carqueiranne. A body wearing a French uniform was found several days later and was buried in Carqueiranne that September. In 1998, a fisherman found a silver chain bracelet south of Marseille. At first it was thought a hoax, but it was identified later as Saint-Exupéry's. On April 7, 2004, officials confirmed that the twisted wreckage of a Lockheed F-5 Lightning, found on the seabed off the coast of Marseille in 2000, is Saint-Exupéry's. The discovery is akin to solving the mystery of where Amelia Earhart's plane went down in the Pacific Ocean in 1937. However, the cause of the crash remains a mystery. Most probably he was shot down by the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter of Robert Heichelle, who claimed shooting down an aggressive Lightning.