![]() ![]() However, not long after, the couple broke off their engagement, and by 1926, Saint-Exupery was flying again. Bowing to the objections of the family of his fiancée – the future novelist Louise Leveque de Vilmorin – he settled in Paris instead and took an office job. ![]() ![]() The following year, he obtained his licence and was offered a transfer to the air force. He was then sent to Strasbourg for training as a pilot. In 1921, he began his military service with the 2e Régiment de chasseurs à cheval (English: 2nd Regiment of Light Cavalry). He was the third of five children of Marie de Fonscolombe and Viscount Jean de Saint Exupéry, an insurance broker who died before his son was four.Īfter failing his final exams at preparatory school, Saint-Exupéry entered the École des Beaux-Arts to study architecture. Antoine de Saint-Exupery was born on 29 June 1900, in Lyon to an old family of provincial nobility. ![]()
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