On this day, June 29, 1900 French poet and pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyon. He died at the young age of 44.
Probably his best known work is The Little Prince.
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A little gem for young and old, and inbetween alike.
I have it in the original French, English, Irish (2 translations) and Dutch.
I have the German version - somewhere. It was my first book to read in German.
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