Antoine de Saint Exupery (HM6)

Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte [=count] de Saint Exupéry (* June 29th, 1900 in Lyon) is a French author and Pilot.
He's a member of an impoverished Aristocratic family and lost his father at an early age. In 1909, he and his younger Brother went to a Jesuitic private school in Le Mans and later to a Marianist school in . In July of 1912, during his Summer holidays in Ambérieu-en-Bugey, the Pilot and constructor Gabriel Salvez-Wroblewski took him on a flight for the first time.
During 1921-23, he did his military service at a cavalry regiment in Strasbourg and schooled as an airplane mechanic. While there, he took private flying lessons.
In 1923, he started to work as a Pilot. In 1925, he published his first Novella L’Aviateur („The Aviator“). In 1929, he went to , to become an airline director. He wrote about these experiences in the novel Vol de nuit („Night Flight“). In the spring of 1937, he spent some time reporting about the Spanish Civil War, for the republican side.
In he was drafted, served initially as a teacher for Pilots and later became a Pilot in a reconnaissance squadron. In May/June 1940, he witnessed how Northeastern fell into Chaos after the „blitz allemand“.
He has three Sisters. In April 1931, he married Consuelo Suncín Sandoval.
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