It began as a little drawing in the margin of letters to his friends and lovers, and ended up becoming a publishing phenomenon of the 20th century and the most translated non-religious book in the world. He was born from the pen of the French pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, while he was in exile in the United States after the German occupation.
With this fable he intended to transmit, in the middle of the war, a message of tolerance, peace, ecology and friendship.
Its first edition was modest: 525 copies in English and 260 in French. Saint-Exupéry could not drink from the success of his work: he disappeared a year later during a reconnaissance operation in the Rhône. By then, The Little Prince had already taken off, and fortunately it survived him.
