desert prince ( foaled 14 march 1995 ) is an irish-bred , british-trained thoroughbred racehorse and sire .

after winning one of his four starts as a two-year-old in 1997 , he improved to become one of the best milers and the highest-rated horse of his generation in europe in the following year .

he won the european free handicap in april before winning three group one races in three countries : the irish 2000 guineas in ireland , the prix du moulin in france and the queen elizabeth ii stakes in the united kingdom .

after a disappointing run in the breeders ' cup turf he was retired to stud and has had some success as a sire of winners .

desert prince

quiet storm ( f desert prince ) black type placed winner , see above .
desert bloom : woodlands stud shuttle stallion desert prince scored a winning double at the anzac day meeting at flemington last sunday .
desert prince ' s effort was especially impressive as both winners came in stakes races .
the latest contestant is woodlands stud ' s shuttle sire desert prince , which has been responsible for an outstanding 2002 with plenty more to come .
desert prince colts breber and kusi clash in the opening heat , with the filly meedan going around in heat eight . their performances are keenly anticipated .
technically , most of this book takes place in the sahara desert . this is where the narrator first meets the prince , and this is where the two of them spend all their time together . so , what’s this desert like ?
as you read , you might want to keep an eye on the connection between the narrator’s feelings about his situation and his descriptions of the desert . as the narrator’s friendship with the prince grows , his opinions about the desert also change .
desert prince continued his tremendous european season last weekend , producing his first group1 winner , mail the desert , in the moyglare stud stakes at the curragh on sunday , just 24 hours after his first group3 winner at sandown park in the solario stakes .
desert prince produced an imperious display here yesterday to beat dr fong and second empire in the queen elizabeth ii stakes , the final round of the european mile championship .
find the quickest route to this hotel ' s address . we ' ll send you directions to desert prince hotel - just enter your email address or phone number below :
2nd dam : quiet storm by desert prince . 2 wins ( 7f - 10f ) at 3 , 2nd upavon s , 3rd pipalong s . dam of 5 winners :
on a metaphorical level , the narrator has been living in a desert all of life , hasn’t he ? he has nofriends or meaningful relationships or human connections . so the setting of the desert magnifies the loneliness of his life . and then , like a drink of cool water in the desert , the little prince makes his way into the narrator’s life .
desert prince began stud duties in ireland and australia in 1999 and has sired 12 individual winners in europe during the current racing season , a phenomenal beginning to his siring career .
in the poule d’essai des poulains at longchamp , desert prince became a classic winner by taking the irish 2 , 000 guineas at the curragh . having been beaten a neck by
by the end of the book , when the prince is gone , the desert has become “the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world” because it was“here that the little prince appeared on earth , and disappeared” ( epilogue 1 ) . being able to recognize it is so important that the narrator describes it in words and images , even including his desert landscape picture two times .
after the prince tells the narrator about the fox’s words of wisdom , the narrator finds beauty even in the desert , which seemed like a lonely and difficult place before . he exclaims , “the house , the stars , the desert—what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible ! ” ( 24 . 25 ) . he can locate the “invisible” thing that makes the desert beautiful . he has learned how to “see rightly” ( 21 . 36 ) and is practicing on the desert .
desert prince ' s stud success received almost instant approval at the 2001 tattersall ' s houghton sales in england when owner sheikh maktoum paid $ 7 . 2million for a colt sired by the stallion .
while the main action takes place in the desert , the prince mentions his own planet—asteroid b - 612—and the six other planets he visits . these play an important metaphorical role in this story , too .
desert prince has been a great addition to the woodlands team and this year his price has been dropped to $ 19 , 800 , a highly competitive price in what is a competitive market in 2004 .
chapter two of desert prince ' s australian career takes place at canterbury today when the first heats of the two - year - old barrier trials are staged , with three of the stallion ' s progeny engaged .
if desert prince’s two - year - old career had been slightly frustrating , his three - year - old season was far more satisfactory : he was able to run less sporadically , and his form was consistently excellent .
when golden slipper nominations closed two months ago , 56 of desert prince ' s progeny were nominated , putting him fifth behind danehill , end sweep , flying spur and octagonal with the most two - year - olds entered .
the aristocrat and the desert prince explores one boy ' s journey of self - discovery in the deserts of the middle east , following him as he discovers his sensual side and finds true love while escaping his humdrum destiny .
) but , thanks to flying fairy , she does at least rank as grand - dam of one true top - liner . desert prince was flying fairy’s fifth foal and , although she subsequently produced the 2002 anglesey stakes winner
the only rival who was able to put up any sort of serious resistance as desert prince surged clear washis old foe dr fong , who had narrowly prevailed in the st james ' palace stakes under an inspired ride from kieren fallon .
, 8f , royal ascot , to kingman , beating outstrip , war command , toormore , prince of all .
a look at the adventurous life and mysterious death of antoine de saint - exupéry , author of the little prince .
antoine de saint - exupéry , author of the little prince , in may 1942 . ( photo : wikimedia commons )
4 . and the prince ? – “i shall look as if i were dead . and that will not be true…”
well , to start with , the desert appears to be just like a stereotypical desert . it’s a huge stretch of dry nothingness . the narrator explains : “the first night [ …in the desert ] i went to sleep on the sand , a thousand miles from any human habitation . i was more isolated than a shipwrecked sailor on a raft in the middle of the ocean” ( 2 . 2 ) .
. this victory was good enough to ensure that desert prince started favourite the following month in royal ascot’s premier juvenile race , the coventry stakes . he ran very well in that too , finishing second of 15 , beaten only by the aidan o’brien - trained
wonder woman ( diana prince ) appears as wonder woman ( prime ) a playable character in the infinite crisis video game .
king utah ( 07g , desert prince , last tycoon ) . 5 wins from 1212m to 2400m , a $ 97 , 930 , 1st atc ladies in racing magazine h . , 2nd atc frank underwood cup , l , brc raw group hospitality quality h .
on the other hand , the fox might have been just that—a little fennec saint ex found in the desert and kept as a pet .
woodlands stud was responsible for 25 of the horses , with lee freedman , gai waterhouse , tony mcevoy , david hall , danny o ' brien , guy walter , myles plumb , david edwards , ron quinton and tim martin among the trainers putting forward desert prince nominations .
godolphin also had the champion four - year - old on turf in the shape of swain ( 129 ) while the official top three - year - old in europe last season is the irish 2 , 000 guineas winner desert prince who now stands at the irish national stud in kildare .
the $ 1 million mile is desert prince ' s next target , but intikhab , who is behind schedule in his fitness programme , will not be there to pick up the gauntlet . instead , the godolphin team will rely on cape cross , who was beaten a shade over four lengths yesterday .
desert prince ( ire ) b . h , 1995 { 1 - s } dp = 4 - 9 - 11 - 8 - 2 ( 34 ) di = 1 . 19 cd = 0 . 15 - 11 starts , 5 wins , 2 places , 1 shows career earnings : £495 , 005
prince albert
officially recognises a paternity that was legally established a few weeks ago
, a paris lawyer , thierry lacoste , told le figaro .
peslier will be attempting his third win in the irish 2 , 000 guineas when he is legged up on cockney rebel today . with successes aboard desert prince ( 1998 ) and saffron walden ( 1999 ) , the frenchman is brimming with confidence , particularly as his mount reportedly turned in an outstanding gallop earlier in the week .
desert prince , who won the irish 2 , 000 guineas in may and the prix du moulin three weeks ago , came to yesterday ' s showdown at the top of his game ; the steady rain which arrived early in the afternoon and eased the going to good could not disguise well - being oozing from his bay hide .
it is hard to forget the disdain with which intikhab that day treated the likes of his godolphin stablemate cape cross , among men and almushtarak , fourth , fifth and sixth yesterday . but that was only a group two contest and desert prince is now a triple group one winner , leaving the official handicapper with something of a dilemma .
who is the world’s most beloved prince ? prince william ? prince jackson ? prince charming ? no , it’s the little prince , or in his native french , le petit prince , the golden haired hero of one of the most celebrated and widely read books ever published . the poetic tale of a young extraterrestrial wanderer who appears in the desert and befriends a marooned pilot has been translated into over 250 languages and sells close to 2 million copies per year . it has inspired artists from cairo to helsinki , spawning television series , an opera , a play , a ballet , and even a museum in japan . the first animated film version of the story , directed by mark osborne ( kung fu panda ) , and voiced by jeff bridges , rachel mcadams and paul rudd among other a - list hollywood talent , won high praise at the cannes films festival last may , and is breaking box office records in france where it was first released . and now u . s . audiences will have a chance to see the highly anticipated film which will premiere on netflix’s streaming service and have a limited release in theaters on august 5th .
. as he was so well bred , one could say that desert prince fetched surprisingly little when offered by genesis green stud at tattersalls as a yearling in 1996 , being bought by charlie gordon - watson on behalf of the st . george family’s lucayan stud for 62 , 000 gns . he soon proved to have been very well bought indeed .
two - year - old filly lady of the desert started the ball rolling in the $ 75 , 000 anzac day stakes , 1400m . a $ 280 , 000 yearling purchase out of lady solvil , lady of the desert is raced by david moodie ' s contract racing stables and her comfortable win followed a desperately unlucky first - up third a fortnight earlier at caulfield .
patricia rotolo , who identified herself as tamara rotolo ' s cousin , told a palm desert newspaper :
all ' s been handled really well for [ the child ' s ] sake .
the price was the third highest for a yearling ever sold in europe and the highest by a first - season sire . not surprisingly , the reputation of desert prince preceded him when his yearlings sold for the first time in australia this year . at the inglis easter sales , 13 of his progeny averaged $ 103 , 392 and fetched up to $ 250 , 000 .
the race provided a fitting swansong to the partnership between the colt ' s owner edward st george and his brilliant young newmarket - based trainer david loder , who will transfer to sheikh mohammed ' s squad in france next year . and in terms of rankings it proved beyond doubt that desert prince is the best three - year - old eight - furlong performer in training .
french aviator and author antoine de saint - exupéry documented his adventures as a pilot in works such as ' wind , sand and stars ' and ' the little prince . '
desert prince remained at gestut isarland for five seasons , his fee remaining at 6 , 500 euros throughout . in 2012 he found another home , scuderia andy capp in italy , where he remains at a fee of 6 , 000 euros , a distinguished if largely forgotten hero who has proved that he can sire high - class horses , and who could conceivably do so again .
the prince’s planet has tiny volcanoes and plenty of sunsets . bad and good things grow there ( i . e . , the baobabs and the prince’s flower ) , but the prince makes sure to root out the bad things and take care of the good things . though he loves his planet , his life is a lonely one and he is often sad . we get hints of this when he says , “you know—one loves the sunset , when one is sad…” ( 6 . 11 ) . and he sure watches a lot of sunsets .
we know the circumstances of the composition of “the little prince” in detail now , courtesy of stacy schiff’s fine biography , “saint - exupéry . ” escaped from europe to an unhappy , monolingual exile in north america , engaged in petty but heated internecine warfare with the other exile and resisting groups ( he had a poor opinion of degaulle , who , he wrongly thought , was setting the french against the french , rather than against the germans ) , saint - exupéry wrote this most french of fables in manhattan and long island . the book’s desert setting derives from the aviator saint - exupéry’s 1935 experience of having been lost for almost a week in the arabian desert , with his memories of loneliness , hallucination , impending death ( and enveloping beauty ) in the desert realized on the page . the central love story of the prince and rose derives from his stormy love affair with his wife , consuelo , from whom the rose takes her cough and her flightiness and her imperiousness and her sudden swoons . ( while he had been lost in the desert in ’35 , schiff tells us , she had been publicly mourning his loss on her own ‘asteroid , ’ her table at the brasserie lipp . ) the desert and the rose—his life as an intrepid aviator and his life as a baffled lover—were his inspiration . but between those two experiences , skewering them , dividing them with a line , was the war .
the newly acknowledged daughter of the prince of monaco - a 14 - year - old schoolgirl - has been keeping a low profile as reporters flock to her hot and wealthy home town .
this music is a collaboration between me and songsofhd : urltoken * * * buy my music here : itunes : urltoken bandcamp : urltoken amazon mp3 : urltoken listen to this music on spotify : spotify : urltoken * * * arabian music about a prince who is forced to flee his home because his country is overrun by foreign enemies . wandering through the hot desert , he is joined by warriors from his nation and together they seek to take back their kingdom . however , their enemies soon find out about their plans and send out elite assassins to kill them . this music i composed with songsofhd is called desert prince . i hope you enjoy listening to it ! * * * this beautiful picture was taken by permission from niltrace on deviantart . urltoken this great thumbnail is from andreameloni from deviantart : urltoken
jackson road ( 13g , iffraaj , desert sun ) . 2 wins at 1100m , 1600m to 2017 - 18 , 3d hawkes bay bec brad & richard turn 40 2yo s . , wrc vernon & vazey parts s .
desert prince’s stud fee duly rose further once he had begun to have runners . ireland had replaced the pound with the euro , and his 2003 fee of 30 , 000 euros was slightly higher than the fee at which he had started . this rose again to 35 , 000 euros in 2004 – but then the metaphorical wheels began to fall of the wagon . desert prince’s subsequent crops continued to include some nice horses , but not enough of them to sustain fees at anything like this level . in 2005 his fee was 20 , 000 euros and in 2006 it was 12 , 000 euros . even though his fee had dropped by nearly two thirds , this reduction wasn’t keeping pace with his decline in status in the eyes of the market place : 2007 saw his fee down to 6 , 500 euros and his address changed to gestut isarland , germany .
the key to desert prince , who still wears the cross noseband that is the legacy of his once - headstrong tendencies , has been getting him to relax .
ever since he came into the yard last year he has had a presence , an aura about him ,
loder said .
but i became convinced through the year that he wanted a lead in his races , particularly when he was beaten from the front at royal ascot .
at six years of age , coming to the end of her wonderful career , desert gold had three virtual match races on the then - strong taranaki circuit with the rising young star gloaming . she beat him in the first , but gloaming had got tangled in the tapes at the start ; gloaming won the next “match” but this time desert gold lost lengths when her half - brother croesus fell in front of her . finally the decider , the hawera stakes ; and , with no excuses either way this time , the three - year - old gloaming was too good for the mare . desert gold was retired after a few more starts ( which included an easy win in the manawatu stakes ) , hugely popular with the public to the end .
put into training by lucayan stud with david loder in newmarket , desert prince did not take long to demonstrate that he was a very good horse . he made his debut as a spring two - year - old in may 1997 , justifying odds - on favouritism to win a maiden race at doncaster first time out . remarkably , first and second in this race both went on to become group one winners , as the runner - up was that season’s middle park stakes winner
however , from a literary perspective , his most important work during this period was the children’s fable for adults , the little prince . the poetic and mystical tale of a pilot stranded in the desert and his conversation with a young prince from another planet , it was written and illustrated by saint - exupéry and published in both french and english in the united states in 1943 , and later in more than 200 other languages . it is considered one of the greatest books in the 20th century and is one of the bestselling books of all time , becoming the subject of numerous adaptations , including a grammy winning children’s album featuring richard burton and a 1974 musical film featuring gene wilder and bob fosse .
a drawing for the little prince by antoine de saint - exupéry ( photo : the morgan library & museum , new york , © estate of antoine de saint - exupéry . photography by graham s . haber , 2013 . )
two races later desert clearance , a three - year - old gelding trained by peter moody , scored a clear - cut win in the $ 150 , 000 group 3 vrc st leger , 2800m , suggesting he has a highly promising future in staying events .
the new zealand record - winning sequence of 19 , shared jointly by desert gold and gloaming , has survived from the 1920s through into the 21st century . it came under its greatest threat from a chestnut colt named mainbrace , at the end of the 1940s .
peslier will be re - united with desert prince at churchill downs .
this horse has grown in confidence all through the year and is now very relaxed ,
he said
in my opinion he is the best miler in europe , of any age .
the frenchman , who was winning his second successive queen elizabeth ii stakes , picked up a two - day ban , starting tomorrow week , for misuse of the whip on the third - placed al muallim in the following race .
this is one of the first questions the little prince asks the pilot who narrates the story . saint - ex knew a little something about dropping down from the sky—hard . at 23 , he fractured his skull in his very first crash . then in 1935 , trying to win 150 , 000 francs by breaking the speed record in an air race from paris to saigon , he and his mechanic / navigator crashed in the sahara desert . they wandered the sand dunes for four days with nothing but “a thermos of sweet coffee , chocolate , and a handful of crackers . ” they were dehydrated and hallucinating by the time they were rescued by a bedouin on a camel who appeared , like the little prince , out of nowhere .
jo ' s luck ( 09f , ali - royal , imperial prince ) . 6 wins from 1200m to 1625m , a $ 78 , 000 , 1st sctc friday night cocktails h . , 2nd brc wilston grange afc maiden h .
the root of the problem for desert prince’s stud career was probably nothing more sinister than the fact that his racing career and subsequent very , very promising start prompted people to hold unrealistically high expectations of him . he did not live up to such hopes - but he was and remains a lovely horse . he will probably come up with some more good horses before he is through ; and he could well write an interesting chapter into the story of absurdity and picture play come champion hurdle day next march .
jazmin grace ' s 44 - year - old mother could not be reached for comment . ms rotolo , who comes from a working - class background , met prince albert in 1991 while she was holidaying on the cote d ' azur .
however , loder ' s future team - mates at godolphin are looking forward to another crack at desert prince .
a mile round two bends will be right up cape cross ' s street
, said racing manager simon crisford , before adding :
it is a pity that intikhab will not be ready , because the distance between him at cape cross in the queen anne stakes - 11 lengths - is an accurate reflection of the difference between them . but he will remain in training next year .
come the end of the season , desert prince was clearly a most appealing stallion prospect . it seemed that the irish national stud had done very well to win the race to stand him , and his first - season stud fee of 20 , 000 irish guineas in 1999 reflected his appeal . it seemed for a few years as if the irish national stud had indeed landed a mighty coup in securing him , because his first crop of two - year - olds included one of europe’s best juvenile fillies of 2002 :
spartan girl , who had raced for ballymacoll stud but had passed into frank dunne’s ownership in advance of her stud career , visited desert prince in 2006 , his final year at the irish national stud . the resultant foal , my tent or yours , proved too backward to start off on the flat at two or three , so was put to one side for national hunt racing . he duly made a winning debut in a national hunt flat race at ludlow as a four - year - old in december 2011 before finishing second to
fantasy became reality in 1993 when an asteroid was named after the little prince’s asteroid b - 612 . another was named after saint - exupéry . an airport in lyons also bears his name , along with a number of french language schools in europe , canada and latin america . before the euro , saint ex’s face graced france’s 50 - franc note , and a rare blue rose was bred in his honor . hollywood legends orson welles and james dean had both hoped to make movies from the little prince . singin’ in the rain director stanley donnen succeeded in 1974 with a live action musical that featured bob fosse as the snake that bites the little prince , performing a sizzling dance number that clearly influenced michael jackson ’s signature moves . in one of the first reviews of the book mary poppins creator p . l . travers predicted , “ the little prince will shine upon children with a sidewise gleam . it will strike them in some place that is not the mind and glow there until the time comes for them to comprehend it . ” and so it has .
the men the prince meets on his journey to earth are all men who have , in bloch’s sense , been reduced to functions . the businessman , the astronomer , even the poor lamplighter , have become their occupations , and gone blind to the stars . it is , again , the essential movement we find in camus , only in “the little prince” it is shown to us as comic fable rather than realistic novel . the world conspires to make us blind to its own workings ; our real work is to see the world again .
by all black from aurarius , desert gold was trained by fred davis for mr t . h . ( tom ) lowry ; the first of three tom lowry’s to be the squire of okawa stud in the hawke’s bay . just as gloaming’s sequence of 19 would have been much longer but for an unexpected defeat , desert gold’s would have been 22 but for a close second at weight - for - age against the older horses at her second - last start as a two - year - old . she won her final start that season and then proceeded through her three - year - old season unbeaten in 14 starts .
but for all its glory and many adaptations , there is still a mystery shrouding the beloved story that has never been solved . one year after the little prince was first published in 1943 , its author and illustrator literally vanished into thin air . whatever happened to antoine de saint - exupéry ?
then , with a winning sequence of 17 and the desert gold - gloaming record at his mercy , he became so cramped and awkward in his action he had to be retired . only after his death , following a pretty neglected stud career , did an autopsy reveal the all but blocked hind - leg artery which had restricted the flow of blood .
jazmin grace rotolo attends st margaret ' s episcopal school and lives with her mother , tamara jean rotolo , a former waitress . she is the second out - of - wedlock child to be legally acknowledged by the 48 - year - old bachelor prince who assumed the throne of the 700 - year - old dynasty less than a year ago .
in tulloch’s absence , straight draw won the 1957 melbourne cup . who owned him ? newspaper tycoon ezra norton . who ran second to straight draw , beaten only a neck ? the three - year - old prince darius , whom tulloch beat by eight lengths in the vrc derby and , in the autumn , by 20 lengths in the ajc st leger .
the girl ' s bodyguard kept watch on the school grounds after classes started . the area , which includes the towns of palm springs , indian wells and rancho mirage , has long been a playground for the wealthy . darryl branstetter , 61 , a retiree of indian wells , said he was moderately thrilled to have the daughter of a prince in his midst .
through the course of this story , the little prince learns to share his life and his planet with his flower , even though this presents him with challenges . he makes friends with the fox and the narrator , and he has many conversations with many people and learns about life and the universe . he literally and metaphorically travels away from his little planet and expands his horizons .
the teenager was welcome in the tiny riviera principality to
pass several days or even live there
, he said . but he noted that the girl could not take the throne or bear the grimaldi family name . neither will albert ' s other child , three - year - old alexandre . they could , however , receive a share of the prince ' s fortune .
in the deepest parts of his psyche , he had felt the loss of france not just as a loss of battle but also as a loss of meaning . the desert of the strange defeat was more bewildering than the desert of libya had been ; nothing any longer made sense . saint - ex’s own war was honorable : he flew with the gr ii / 33 reconnaissance squadron of the armée de l’air . and , after the bitter defeat , he fled europe like so many other patriotic frenchmen , travelling through portugal and arriving in new york on the last day of 1940 . but , as anyone who lived through it knew , what made the loss so traumatic was the sense that the entire underpinning of french civilization , not merely its armies , had come , so to speak , under the scrutiny of the gods and , with remarkable speed , collapsed .
yet the most haunting similarity between saint ex and his little prince is at the end . ( spoiler alert ! ) bitten by a snake , the little prince falls into the sand “as gently as a tree falls , ” and his body vanishes—whether in death or on his way home we’ll never know . likewise for saint ex . his plane disappeared in 1944 headed for the south of france . in 1998 , in the mediterranean sea off the coast of marseille , a fisherman’s net snared a silver bracelet engraved with saint - exupéry’s name . following that lead six years later , a diver finally brought up the smashed bits of saint ex’s plane…but no trace of his body . it was impossible to discern if the plane had been in battle or brought down by the pilot himself . the mystery lives on…
the fox told the prince he could be tamed without them . the character of the wise fox was possibly inspired by silvia hamilton ( later reinhardt ) , a budding new york journalist who spoke little french but made a mean scrambled egg . saint ex refused to learn english , but night after night in her fifth avenue apartment , silvia tamed his heart through his stomach with intimate suppers of eggs and gin - and - cokes while he worked on the book . just before leaving to join the free french air force , saint ex gave silvia a “rumpled paper bag” . stuffed inside was the original manuscript for the little prince replete with coffee stains , cigarette burns , and his hand - painted watercolor illustrations . in 2014 , that manuscript was the centerpiece of a special exhibit at the morgan library and museum in new york city .
as a four - year - old desert gold took her sequence through to 19 with weight - for - age wins at trentham , ellerslie and riccarton . at five she was still the weight - for - age queen – she won the awapuni gold cup at three , four and five years – and she made several trips to australia where , during those first world war years , she was tremendously popular through her owner donating her winnings to the war relief fund .
from an experience that was so dehumanizing and overwhelming—an experience that turns an entire human being with a complicated life history and destiny first into a cipher and then into a casualty—saint - exupéry wanted to rescue the person , not the statistic . the statistics could be any of those the men on the planets are obsessed with , the ‘counting’ fetish that might take in stars if one is an astronomer or profits for businessmen . the richest way to see “le petit prince” is as an extended parable of the kinds and follies of abstraction—and the special intensity and poignance of the story is that saint - exupéry dramatizes the struggle against abstraction not as a philosophical subject but as a life - and - death story . the book moves from asteroid to desert , from fable and comedy to enigmatic tragedy , in order to make one recurrent point : you can’t love roses . you can only love a rose .
over time , the suffrage of readers has altered that conclusion , of course : a classic is a classic . but it has altered the conclusion without really changing the point . this year marks an efflorescence of attention , including a full - scale exhibition of saint - exupéry’s original artwork at the morgan library & museum , in new york . but we are no closer to penetrating the central riddle : what is “the little prince” about ?
in 2015 , a new testament to the staying power of saint - exupéry’s cherished tale came in the form of a new 3d - animation adaptation with a star - studded cast that includes jeff bridges , rachel mcadams , paul rudd , marion cotillard , james franco , benicio del toro , ricky gervais and paul giamatti . with the film already having played in overseas markets , the little prince is slated for a u . s . release sometime in 2016 .
desert prince hotel is a budget hotel that can compete favourably with luxury hotels in design . it is located a few blocks from the federal polytechnic at the bida area of niger state . rooms are luxuriously furnished and tastefully decorated . whichever of our rooms you decide to choose for your stay , be it the standard royal rooms , deluxe royal and vip royal rooms , you will be assured of the ultimate comfort , tranquillity , convenience and service - just as you would expect from a luxury hotel . the well - decorated and spacious guest rooms are air - conditioned and facilitated with an array of modern amenities to make your stay a pleasant one . at our restaurant , our guests with not only delight you with the best of flavours from the northern part of nigeria but create an enchanting atmosphere which acts as an appetiser for guests . relax , sit back and enjoy with some soft drinks , wines and hard drinks at our bar . we also have a large and secure car park , 24 hour security and house keeping services .
when wwii broke out , saint ex embodied the “right stuff” flying reconnaissance missions against the nazis . but when paris fell in 1940 and the occupation began , he escaped to america and became an alien in new york . ironically , the very french le petit prince was born in chic homes on long island and in manhattan , and first published in the u . s . —not france—in 1943 . by then , the forces of the french resistance and the american allies were fighting hard against germany ; in spite of his advanced age , and crash related injuries , saint ex enlisted to fly spy planes again . on july 31 , 1944 , he took off in a lockheed p - 38 lightning plane to fly on a mission over occupied france—and disappeared . was he shot down by enemy fire ? or deliberately crashed his own plane ? while it may not solve the mystery , antoine de saint - exupéry’s most famous book reveals a great deal about his life and mind . here are 5 points where fantasy meets reality in the little prince .
everyone knows the basic bones of the story : an aviator , downed in the desert and facing long odds of survival , encounters a strange young person , neither man nor really boy , who , it emerges over time , has travelled from his solitary home on a distant asteroid , where he lives alone with a single rose . the rose has made him so miserable that , in torment , he has taken advantage of a flock of birds to convey him to other planets . he is instructed by a wise if cautious fox , and by a sinister angel of death , the snake .
the little prince abandons and then yearns for the lone , vain and enchanting rose on his tiny planet . many believe that rose represents saint ex’s wife , the salvadoran writer consuelo suncín de sandoval . like the little prince’s flower , she was petite , exquisite , and had a chronic cough , ( from asthma not a drafty asteroid ) . she had been married twice before the 6 foot 2 pilot literally swept her off her feet for a ride in his plane on the night they met . an ex - lover said consuelo had “a viper’s tongue and a musical body . ” saint ex’s sister called her a “tart . ” it was no secret that consuelo had extramarital affairs , but then so did saint ex . most notoriously with “la blonde” he called “nellie” a . k . a . hélène de vogüé , a stunning socialite and painter whom the oss ( precursor to the cia ) suspected of being a nazi spy . but in the end consuelo had the last word about her husband’s affections in her book titled the memoir of the rose .
for all of the prince’s journey is a journey of exile , like saint - exupéry’s , away from generic experience towards the eroticism of the particular flower . to be responsible for his rose , the prince learns , is to see it as it really is , in all its fragility and vanity—indeed , in all its utter commonness ! —without loving it less for being so fragile . the persistent triumph of specific experience can be found in something as idiosyncratic and bizarre as the opening image of a boa constrictor swallowing an elephant , which , the narrator tells us , the grownups can only see as a generic object . ( this is where saint - ex and the surrealists who admired him—a tracing of his hand appears in one of the issues of the surrealist journal minotaur —touch . rene magritte’s paintings , with their very similar obsession with middle - class hats , suggest that every time you see a bourgeois derby there may be a boa constrictor inside . the x - ray of every hat reveals a boa constrictor in every head . that could be the motto of every surrealist exhibition . )
one year later , donna troy had taken up the mantle of wonder woman , after a year in which diana went missing . diana re - appeared in the guise of diana prince , a secret agent . batman had helped her create her new secret identity . diana joined the department of metahuman affairs , and was partnered with nemesis . during her introduction to the team , she was brought up to speed on the surveillance information available on wonder woman . prior to dropping out of sight , wonder woman was last observed in the company of an eastern mystic named i - ching .
antoine de saint - exupéry was born in lyon , france , in 1900 . raised in an aristocratic family , he took his first airplane ride at the age of 12 and immediately fell in love . he received his pilot’s wings during his compulsory military service in 1922 , around which time he also began to write . his adventures as a pilot would supply the inspiration for all of his literary endeavors , which culminated with the 1943 publication of the classic the little prince . saint - exupéry disappeared in july 1944 while flying a reconnaissance mission over occupied france during world war ii , leading to speculation over the cause of his death that persists to the present day .
in 1931 , saint - exupéry also married for the first time , to salvadoran writer and artist consuelo suncin . though they would remain together , by all accounts their marriage was a troubled one due to saint - exupéry’s infidelities and frequent absences . among the most eventful of these sojourns was his 1935 attempt to break the air - speed record between paris and saigon . en route , his plane crashed in the sahara , and he and his copilot wandered the desert for days , nearly dying of exposure and dehydration before being rescued by a wandering bedouin . saint - exupéry’s 1939 memoir wind , sand and stars , which includes an account of the events , surpassed the success of his earlier works , winning the prestigious grand prize for novel writing from the académie française and the national book award in the united states .
of all the books written in french over the past century , antoine de saint - exupéry’s “le petit prince” is surely the best loved in the most tongues . this is very strange , because the book’s meanings—its purpose and intent and moral—still seem far from transparent , even seventy - five - plus years after its first appearance . indeed , the startling thing , looking again at the first reviews of the book , is that , far from being welcomed as a necessary and beautiful parable , it bewildered and puzzled its readers . among the early reviewers , only p . l . travers—who had , with a symmetry that makes the nonbeliever shiver , written an equivalent myth for england in her mary poppins books—really grasped the book’s dimensions , or its importance .
it’s been suggested that the inquisitive little stranger might be based on saint ex’s younger brother who died of rheumatic fever at the age of 15 with the author by his side . or perhaps he was modeled on the sleeping polish boy saint ex once spotted on a train , about whom he wrote , “what an adorable face ! . . . little princes in legends are not different from this . ” but saint ex himself had been a child with hair so blonde he was nicknamed “the sun king . ” he was every bit as ravenously curious , bold , and lonely as the little prince , and like his creation , learned the hard way that “it is only with the heart that one can see rightly ; what is essential is invisible to the eye . ”
a group of nazis who had been given abilities similar to those of captain nazi took advantage of themyscira ' s empty state . when wonder woman encountered captain nazi on a mission as diana prince , she learned of their plans after defeating him and set out to thwart them , knowing her mother stood alone in themyscira ' s defense . while queen hippolyta fought a one - person resistance campaign against the nazis , diana beseeched god after god from various pantheons for their aid in bypassing the ban and reaching themyscira , but none were willing to face athena ' s wrath except kane milohai . he agreed to adopt diana as a champion and daughter , and gave her his standard , a cloth tied around her arm , as well as a sea shell that could float in air and water , grow in size to carry passengers , and could travel between dimensions .
it took many years—and many readings—for this reader to begin to understand that the book is a war story . not an allegory of war , rather , a fable of it , in which the central emotions of conflict—isolation , fear , and uncertainty—are alleviated only by intimate speech and love . but the “petit prince” is a war story in a very literal sense , too—everything about its making has to do not just with the onset of war but with the “strange defeat” of france , with the experience of vichy and the occupation . saint - exupéry’s sense of shame and confusion at the devasation led him to make a fable of abstract ideas set against specific loves . in this enterprise , he sang in unconscious harmony with the other great poets of the war’s loss , from j . d . salinger—whose great post - war story , “for esmé—with love and squalor” shows us moral breakdown eased only by the speech of a lucid child—to his contemporary albert camus , who also took from the war the need to engage in a perpetual battle “between each man’s happiness and the illness of abstraction , ” meaning the act of distancing real emotion from normal life .
born in 1900 , antoine marie jean - baptiste roger , vicomte de saint exupéry ( sounds like sahnt ex - zoo - peh - ree ) , was dubbed saint ex . his french aristocratic family had more class than money , and an idyllic château where saint ex grew up , a dreamer who doodled , wrote poems , and was obsessed with the miraculous new invention of the airplane . he would tie sheets to poles attached to his bicycle and pedal like a maniac in a vain attempt to fly . he finally touched the sky as a pilot in the french military , and a pioneer of postal aviation , flying mail in a primitive plane with no radio over the sahara desert and the andes mountains . saint ex’s daredevil scrapes with death and heroic rescues of fellow downed pilots were legendary . he wrote books about those adventures such as night flight and wind , sand and stars that are still revered as lyrical bibles of flying . as tom wolfe put it in the right stuff , saint - exupéry was
a saint in short , true to his name , flying up here at the right hand of god . the good saint - ex ! and he was not the only one . he was merely the one who put it into words most beautifully and anointed himself before the altar of the right stuff .
diana spent some time with vanessa and julia , until she learned from edward indelicato that the cheetah had been captured in the balkans , in a country called pan balgravia , by their new president , baron von nastraed . diana contacted the god proteus prior to leaving , enlisting his help to create a false identity , diana prince . lacking knowledge of the region , she decided to enlist deathstroke for help . inspector indelicato decided to come along as well . the first location that they were led to turned out to be a trap and they had to fight their way through some royal guards . capturing one , wonder woman used her lasso to learn that the baron had secret and dummy prisons set up all over - - and he also had mass graves . diana and slade went undercover to the finest restaurant in the country , where they managed to meet the baron and get him to agree to another meeting . on the way to the meeting , deathstroke announced that he was parting ways , prompting a fight between he and wonder woman that she won . after tossing deathstroke in the trunk of the car and having indelicato stand guard , she broke into the baron ' s castle . the baron was not as naive as they hoped , however , and was waiting for her with several demonic thugs . [ 31 ]
html public
- / / w3c / / dtd html 4 . 0 transitional / / en
which stallion will assume danehill ' s mantle ? this question is much asked by australian breeders as contender after contender emerges each week .
all are prepared by john hawkes , an unabashed fan of the stallion who told owner jack ingham that he could become the best stallion he has standing at woodlands stud .
big buys on show : the major stables will be out in force at today ' s canterbury two - year - old heats , with graeme rogerson having 15 trialling , gai waterhouse 12 , john hawkes 11 , clarry conners nine , bede murray seven and noel mayfield - smith five .
probably the most valuable runner is john singleton ' s filly touched by god in heat four . she is by sunday silence from sally klaire and is trained by gai waterhouse .


agonopterix taciturna is a moth in the depressariidae family .

it was described by meyrick in 1910 .

it is found in the himalayas , the russian far east and japan .

the wingspan is 24 – 25 mm .

the forewings are brownish , sprinkled with darker , the costal and terminal areas sprinkled with fuscous-whitish .

there are two indistinctly indicated oblique darker streaks from the costa towards the base , the apex of the second more or less marked with dark fuscous .

the first dical stigma is indicated by an oblique dark fuscous mark and the second by a fuscous-whitish dot , edged with some darker scales .

these are connected by an indistinct streak of darker suffusion and there is an interrupted similar streak along the postmedian fold .

there is also a darker curved subterminal line and a series of cloudy dots of dark fuscous irroration around the apex and termen .

the hindwings are pale fuscous , darker posteriorly .

agonopterix taciturna

agonopterix liturosa ( haworth , 1811 ) = agonopterix huebneri bradley , 1966 = agonopterix huebneri bradley , 1966 .
agonopterix propinquella ( treitschke , 1835 ) = depressaria minor dufrane , 1931 = pinaris yeatiella hübner , 1825 .
agonopterix heracliana ( linnaeus , 1758 ) = applana ( fabricius , 1777 ) = depressaria uniformata dufrane , 1949 .
peter , here it is necessary to change the photo illustrating views . those who are now transferred to the form agonopterix ocellana
agonopterix kaekeritziana ( linnaeus , 1767 ) = liturella ( denis & shiffermüller , 1775 ) = depressaria corichroella turati , 1924 = phalaena sparmanniana fabricius , 1794 .
agonopterix nervosa ( haworth , 1811 ) = costosa ( haworth , 1811 ) = depunctella ( hübner , 1810 - 13 ) = boicella ( freyer , 1835 ) = dryadoxena ( meyrick , 1920 ) = agonopterix blackmori busck , 1922 = venosata ( kautz , 1930 ) = agonopteryx blackmori busck , 1922 = depressaria obscurana weber , 1945 .
for the territory of . sakhalin view agonopterix propinquella ( treitschke , 1835 ) indicated ( mg ponomarenko and va dubinina . new records of the gelechioid moths ( lepidoptera : gelechioidea ) from sakhalin island / / far eastern entomologist . 2011 . number 233 : 1 - 7 ) .
html public
- / / w3c / / dtd html 4 . 01 transitional / / en
urltoken
nb : the taxon name search is for single names only . for example , to locate dysodia vitrina flammata warren , 1904 you should enter flammata only .
we use cookies to optimise your experience when using this site . view our cookie policy and our new privacy notice .
doctype html public
- / / w3c / / dtd html 4 . 0 transitional / / en
confused by a class within a class or an order within an order ? please see our brief essay .
to cite this page : myers , p . , r . espinosa , c . s . parr , t . jones , g . s . hammond , and t . a . dewey . 2018 . the animal diversity web ( online ) . accessed at https : / / animaldiversity . org .
disclaimer : the animal diversity web is an educational resource written largely by and for college students . adw doesn ' t cover all species in the world , nor does it include all the latest scientific information about organisms we describe . though we edit our accounts for accuracy , we cannot guarantee all information in those accounts . while adw staff and contributors provide references to books and websites that we believe are reputable , we cannot necessarily endorse the contents of references beyond our control .
this material is based upon work supported by the national science foundation grants drl 0089283 , drl 0628151 , due 0633095 , drl 0918590 , and due 1122742 . additional support has come from the marisla foundation , um college of literature , science , and the arts , museum of zoology , and information and technology services .
albania , austria , belgium , britain , france , germany , greece , denmark , ireland , spain , italy , corsica , latvia , luxembourg , malta , netherlands , poland , portugal , romania , sardinia , sicily , slovakia , the soviet union - the european part of france , czech republic , switzerland , sweden and yugoslavia .
regions of the russian federation : european central black earth , the western caucasus .
albania , austria , belgium , the british isles , france , germany , greece ( mainland ) , denmark ( mainland ) , ireland , spain ( mainland ) , italy ( mainland ) , the canary islands , corsica , latvia , macedonia , malta , netherlands , the channel islands , poland , portugal ( mainland ) , romania , sardinia , northern ireland , sicily , slovakia , ukraine , finland , france ( mainland ) , czech republic , switzerland , sweden , estonia .
[ 10 ] de jong , y . s . d . m . ( ed . ) ( 2011 ) fauna europaea version 2 . 4 ( faunaeur . org )
note : you should have a urltoken account to upload new topics and comments . please , create an account or log in to add comments
* our website is multilingual . some comments have been translated from other languages .
curators : konstantin efetov , vasiliy feoktistov , svyatoslav knyazev , evgeny komarov , stan korb , alexander zhakov .
species catalog enables to sort by characteristics such as expansion , flight time , etc . .
austria , belgium , denmark , germany , ireland , italy , latvia , lithuania , the netherlands , norway , poland , slovakia and the soviet union - the european part , finland , france , czech republic , switzerland , sweden , estonia .
regions of the russian federation : european north - east , the european north - west , the european central black earth , the european central european south taiga , kaliningrad , karelia , mid - volzhsky , sredneobskaya .
austria , belarus , belgium , the british isles , france , germany , denmark ( mainland ) , ireland , spain ( mainland ) , italy ( mainland ) , latvia , lithuania , luxembourg , netherlands , norway ( mainland ) , poland , portugal ( mainland ) , romania , russia , slovakia , ukraine , finland , france ( mainland ) , czech republic , switzerland , sweden , estonia .
albania , austria , belgium , great britain , hungary , germany , denmark , ireland , italy , latvia , netherlands , norway , poland , romania , sicily , slovakia , the soviet union - the european part of turkey - european part , finland , france , czech republic , switzerland , sweden , estonia , yugoslavia .
regions of the russian federation : the volga - don , east caucasus , the european north - east , the european north - west , the european central european south taiga , transbaikalia , western caucasus , kaliningrad , karelia , kola , seaside , mid - amur , mid - volzhsky , south - west - siberian , south yakutia .
albania , austria , belarus , belgium , the british isles , france , germany , gibraltar , denmark ( mainland ) , ireland , spain ( mainland ) , italy ( mainland ) , latvia , lithuania , luxembourg , macedonia , moldova , netherlands , norway ( mainland ) , poland , russia , romania , northern ireland , sicily , slovakia , ukraine , finland , france ( mainland ) , croatia , czech republic , switzerland , sweden , estonia , yugoslavia .
there are no photos of this species on the website yet . you can offer your photo by logging into your account
austria , belgium , great britain , hungary , germany , denmark , ireland , italy , latvia , lithuania , luxembourg , netherlands , norway , poland , portugal , romania , slovakia and the soviet union - the european part , finland , france , czech republic , switzerland , sweden , estonia , yugoslavia .
regions of the russian federation : the volga - don , east caucasus , the european north - east , the european north - west , the european central black earth , the european central european south taiga , the western caucasus , kaliningrad , karelia , kola , krasnoyarsk , lower volga , prealtay , middle - volga , mid - ural , south west siberian , south ural .
austria , belarus , belgium , bosnia and herzegovina , the british isles , france , germany , gibraltar , denmark ( mainland ) , ireland , spain ( mainland ) , italy ( mainland ) , the canary islands , latvia , lithuania , luxembourg , madeira , macedonia , moldova , netherlands , norway ( mainland ) , the channel islands , poland , portugal ( mainland ) , russia , romania , northern ireland , slovakia , ukraine , finland , france ( mainland ) , czech republic , switzerland , sweden , estonia .
albania , austria , belgium , great britain , hungary , germany , denmark , greece , ireland , italy , latvia , lithuania , luxembourg , netherlands , norway , poland , portugal , romania , sardinia , slovakia , the soviet union - the european part , finland , france , czech republic , switzerland , sweden , estonia , yugoslavia .
regions of russia : central european , western caucasus , middle - volzhsky , south ural .
albania , austria , belgium , the british isles , france , germany , greece ( mainland ) , denmark ( mainland ) , ireland , spain ( mainland ) , italy ( mainland ) , corsica , latvia , lithuania , luxembourg , netherlands , norway ( mainland ) , the channel islands , poland , portugal ( mainland ) , russia , romania , sardinia , northern ireland , slovakia , ukraine , finland , france ( mainland ) , croatia , czech republic , switzerland , sweden , estonia .
albania , austria , belgium , great britain , hungary , germany , denmark , greece , ireland , italy , latvia , lithuania , luxembourg , malta , netherlands , norway , poland , romania , sicily , slovakia , the soviet union - the european part , finland , france , czech republic , switzerland , sweden , estonia , yugoslavia .
regions of the russian federation : the volga - don , east caucasus , the european northeast , the european north - west , the european central black earth , the european central european south taiga , transbaikalia , western caucasus , kaliningrad , nizhne - amur , seaside , medium amur , mid - volzhsky , south west siberian , south ural .
albania , austria , belarus , belgium , bulgaria , the british isles , france , germany , greece ( mainland ) , denmark ( mainland ) , ireland , spain ( mainland ) , italy ( mainland ) , latvia , lithuania , macedonia , malta , netherlands , norway ( mainland ) , the channel islands , poland , russia , romania , sicily , slovakia , ukraine , finland , france ( mainland ) , czech republic , switzerland , sweden , estonia .
victoria , with the need to specify the accuracy with which the information is given in the source you are using . at the same time , if possible , the data is downloaded via the link
add information about a
right at the top of the page essay species . however , if the source data is not already in the list of references , it will need to make . a formalized data for the region will be the moderator .
the catalog of lepidoptera ( lepidoptera ) russia ( 2008 ) refers to the island of sakhalin sakhalin region ( number 38 ) . in the future , when there will be a supplement , it is necessary to indicate the way in the . . . - only the regions of russia ? specifically , is optional ?
peter and i are not formalized nikogla regions . i only areas and were from the very beginning .
if you know the species , please , click on the picture and write the species name in comments section . also , you can go to the gallery page with all photos of depressariini sp . ( large size ) .