Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, Count de Saint-Exupéry was a French writer, poet, and professional aviator.
He was born in the French city of Lyon, into the family of a provincial nobleman (a count). At the age of four, he lost his father. Antoine was raised by his mother. Saint-Exupéry graduated from a Jesuit school in Le Mans, studied at a Catholic boarding school in Switzerland, and in 1917 entered the School of Fine Arts in Paris, in the department of architecture.
A turning point in his life came in 1921, when he was drafted into the army and sent to pilot training courses.…
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