Saint-Exupéry

As recounted by Saint-Exupéry, Guillaumet takes one step in front of the other, summoning the courage to keep going, trying to control his mind, which “went on working like a turbine.”

Much of the inspiration for “The Little Prince” was mined from Saint-Exupéry’s life as a pilot.

Mermoz would later disappear over that stretch of hostile ocean, and Saint-Exupéry describes the “anguished vigil,” their “brittle hopes,” as they await the radio signal that would never come.

In 1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote in The Little Prince that language is the source of misunderstandings.