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22 May 2013
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A museum at the sources of "St-Ex the writer" and his Little Prince
With a little imagination, one could anticipate in the distance the appearance of a Bréguet 14, battling against the winds. Imagination is partly here, in Tarfaya, that Saint-Exupéry, the author of The Little Prince, found it. In this end of the world, a museum is dedicated to him."Antoine de Saint-Exupéry the writer was somewhat born here, in Tarfaya, where he spent two years as station manager for Aéropostale. It is there that he began to write novels, under the stars", proclaims Sadat Shaibata Mrabihrabou, opening the doors of the modest museum, in the Great Moroccan south."We are the cradle of a world-renowned writer", he adds.Because who says "Saint-Exupéry" necessarily thinks of "The Little Prince", a humanist tale published in April 1943 in New York, and the most translated book in the world after the Bible (1,300 editions, 145 million copies sold).The narrator is an aviator who,…
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