Antoine De Saint Exupery

Author of several books of simple tone and warm human fibre, some often read by or to children, many of which have been translated from their native French into English.

• Vol De Nuit ("NightFlight?")
• Le Petit Prince ("TheLittlePrince")
• WindSandAndStars

Antoine de Saint-Exupery was a professional pilot doing "nightflights" on South America. He crashed as an Allied pilot during WW II near Cannes.

His most famous quote is probably PerfectionIsAchieved.

Wikipedia entry: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint-Exupery

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