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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (June 29, 1900July 31, 1944) was a Frenchwriter and aviator, born in Lyon.
Saint-Exupéry was one of the pioneers of international postal flights, an aviator in the days when aircraft had few instruments and flying was done "by the seat of the pants".
Later he complained that those who flew the more advanced aircraft were more like accountants than pilots.
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He first worked on the Aéropostale[?] between Toulouse, France and Dakar, Senegal, while writing his first book, L'Aviateur (The Aviator). In 1928, he published Courrier-Sud and flew the route between Casablanca and Dakar.
In 1931, Vol de Nuit (Night Flight), which received the Prix Femina[?], was published. He kept writing and flying (in Africa and South America) until the beginning of the war.
During World War II, he would escape to City of New York, but would soon come back to fight with the Allied forces, in a squadron based in the Mediterranean area.
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