![]() ![]() Since then, the book has become the most translated work after the Bible. But his book did not really take off until it also appeared in France, published by the major French publishing house Gallimard in 1946. Saint-Exupéry returned to war duties for the French air force nearly three years later, the very same month that The Little Prince appeared in print in the USA. He was also a renowned aviator, who had served as a pilot in the French air force until the armistice of 22 June 1940, which saw Nazi officials occupy northern and western France. But Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was not just a children’s author. The book was written in French, its author a French national exiled to America during the second world war after France’s armistice with Germany in 1940. Little did its author know then that it would become a global success read by millions still today, 75 years later. ![]() ![]() In April 1943, a short children’s story was published in America. ![]()
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