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Il était une fois...Le Petit Prince: Textes réunis et présentés par Allan Cerisier
Il était une fois... un livre. Mais pas n'importe lequel. L'un des plus lus au monde : un conte qui a fait rêver et méditer, sourire et pleurer des millions d'enfants et de grandes personnes ; une fable dont l' onde bienfaisante , prolongée de génération en
génération, continue d'apporter un peu de sagesse et de consolation à celles et ceux que la terre des hommes parfois inquiète. Il était une fois... Le Petit Prince d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Chaque livre a son histoire. Celle du Petit Prince est captivante.
Enfant de l'exil, le petit personnage serait né à New York en 1942, sous la plume et les pinceaux d'un Saint-Exupéry mélancolique, souffrant d'être soustrait au terrain militaire. Paru outre-Atlantique en 1943, l'ouvrage ne sortira en France qu'en avril
1946, à titre posthume. Ce recueil inédit offre aux amateurs du Petit Prince une approche vivante d'un livre entré dans la légende : études et témoignages,
documents d'époque et dossiers critiques s'y côtoient... Riche en informations et anecdotes, il satisfera bien des curiosités.
génération, continue d'apporter un peu de sagesse et de consolation à celles et ceux que la terre des hommes parfois inquiète. Il était une fois... Le Petit Prince d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Chaque livre a son histoire. Celle du Petit Prince est captivante.
Enfant de l'exil, le petit personnage serait né à New York en 1942, sous la plume et les pinceaux d'un Saint-Exupéry mélancolique, souffrant d'être soustrait au terrain militaire. Paru outre-Atlantique en 1943, l'ouvrage ne sortira en France qu'en avril
1946, à titre posthume. Ce recueil inédit offre aux amateurs du Petit Prince une approche vivante d'un livre entré dans la légende : études et témoignages,
documents d'époque et dossiers critiques s'y côtoient... Riche en informations et anecdotes, il satisfera bien des curiosités.
320 pages, Unknown Binding
Published April 6, 2006
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About the author
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1,573 books8,804 followersPeople best know French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for his fairy tale
The Little Prince
(1943).
He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.
Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Saint-Exupéry worked in several professions but in 1926 went back and signed as a pilot for Aéropostale, a private airline that from Toulouse flew mail to Dakar, Senegal. In 1927, Saint-Exupéry accepted the position of airfield chief for Cape Juby in southern Morocco and began his first book, a memoir, called Southern Mail and published in 1929.
He then moved briefly to Buenos Aires to oversee the establishment of an Argentinean mail service, returned to Paris in 1931, and then published Night Flight , which won instant success and the prestigious Prix Femina. Always daring Saint-Exupéry tried from Paris in 1935 to break the speed record for flying to Saigon. Unfortunately, his plane crashed in the Libyan Desert, and he and his copilot trudged through the sand for three days to find help. In 1938, a second plane crash at that time, as he tried to fly between city of New York and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, seriously injured him. The crash resulted in a long convalescence in New York.
He published Wind, Sand and Stars , next novel, in 1939. This great success won the grand prize for novel of the academy and the national book award in the United States. Saint-Exupéry flew reconnaissance missions at the beginning of the Second World War but went to New York to ask the United States for help when the Germans occupied his country. He drew on his wartime experiences to publish Flight to Arras and Letter to a Hostage in 1942.
Later in 1943, Saint-Exupéry rejoined his air squadron in northern Africa. From earlier plane crashes, Saint-Exupéry still suffered physically, and people forbade him to fly, but he insisted on a mission. From Borgo, Corsica, on 31 July 1944, he set to overfly occupied region. He never returned.
He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.
Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Saint-Exupéry worked in several professions but in 1926 went back and signed as a pilot for Aéropostale, a private airline that from Toulouse flew mail to Dakar, Senegal. In 1927, Saint-Exupéry accepted the position of airfield chief for Cape Juby in southern Morocco and began his first book, a memoir, called Southern Mail and published in 1929.
He then moved briefly to Buenos Aires to oversee the establishment of an Argentinean mail service, returned to Paris in 1931, and then published Night Flight , which won instant success and the prestigious Prix Femina. Always daring Saint-Exupéry tried from Paris in 1935 to break the speed record for flying to Saigon. Unfortunately, his plane crashed in the Libyan Desert, and he and his copilot trudged through the sand for three days to find help. In 1938, a second plane crash at that time, as he tried to fly between city of New York and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, seriously injured him. The crash resulted in a long convalescence in New York.
He published Wind, Sand and Stars , next novel, in 1939. This great success won the grand prize for novel of the academy and the national book award in the United States. Saint-Exupéry flew reconnaissance missions at the beginning of the Second World War but went to New York to ask the United States for help when the Germans occupied his country. He drew on his wartime experiences to publish Flight to Arras and Letter to a Hostage in 1942.
Later in 1943, Saint-Exupéry rejoined his air squadron in northern Africa. From earlier plane crashes, Saint-Exupéry still suffered physically, and people forbade him to fly, but he insisted on a mission. From Borgo, Corsica, on 31 July 1944, he set to overfly occupied region. He never returned.
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September 23, 2015
I didn't want to give this a number of stars because apparently it's a great book etc. But what. Did I like it? No. The one star literally says "didn't like it." And I didn't.
I suppose there is more to this book than I saw since so many people love it so fondly. (Is that a lie? Do people just pretend to like this book in order not to seem uneducated and stupid? Who knows?) My grandmother says I will understand it when I'm older. I'm not saying no to that yet, but well... I just don't get it. The only high-light is the drawing of a snake who's eaten an elephant. The rest is just...weird.
I suppose there is more to this book than I saw since so many people love it so fondly. (Is that a lie? Do people just pretend to like this book in order not to seem uneducated and stupid? Who knows?) My grandmother says I will understand it when I'm older. I'm not saying no to that yet, but well... I just don't get it. The only high-light is the drawing of a snake who's eaten an elephant. The rest is just...weird.
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