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Biografía de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Actividad ligada a la lectura de "El Principito" y al proyecto de Erasmus+ "Tell me a story, please"
We all know The Little Prince, but do we know the author?
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a French writer, a poet, and he was also an aviator.
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He took his first airplane when he was only 12 years old.
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Since that moment, he fell in love with aviation.
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He served the French military service in the air forces for a very long time,
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So he was very glad when finally, in 1922, he obtained his pilot wings.
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Around this time, he also began to write his adventures as a pilot.
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When in 1943, his most famous book, The Little Prince, was published.
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He had also written many, many, many other books.
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Some of them, for example, are
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Night Flight,
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The Silver Sheep, or South and Main, his first book.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery was born in Lyon, in France, on the 29th of June in the 1900s.
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He belongs to an aristocratic family.
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When he was young, his father died, and he went moved by his mother and also his four siblings to a relative chateau in the east.
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Saint-Exupery had a privileged life and carefree.
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And then, in 1912, he took his first trip in an airplane.
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It was a moment that has a lasting and profound impression on him.
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He receives an early education at Catholic schools in France.
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Exupery went to a boarding school in Switzerland.
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After the outbreak of World War I, he came back to France in 1917.
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and after he attended a college prep school in Paris, before entering to the Naval Academy.
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However, a poor student, he failed and he studied architecture.
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He studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts Arts.
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Despite his disappointing rejection from the Naval Academy,
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Saint-Exupéry was given the opportunity to realize his dream of flying during his compulsory service in the military
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In 1921, he learned to fly when he was a McCain in the army
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And become an official pilot in the following year
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Then, Saint-Exupéry, he left the Air Force in 1922
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too, but Saint-Exupéry returned to fly and developed a new passion.
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He began to write stories about his experiences as a pilot, because he had a lot, and published
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his first book in 1926, whose name was The Aviator.
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On 1943 Saint-Exupéry came back to France and returned to his squadron because he wanted
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to fly despite his age and infirmities.
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On July 31, 1944, he left Corsica for a recognizing mission over France.
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He never returned.
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His body and his plane were never found, so he was considered dead.
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His mysterious disappearance became an international notice and caused lots of speculations until
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year 2000, when a squad driver found his plane, which lately was known as Saint-Exupéry's
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plane.
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Even nowadays, his death continues being a riddle.
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- Autor/es:
- Alumnos 3ºESO
- Subido por:
- Ruben L.
- Licencia:
- Dominio público
- Visualizaciones:
- 72
- Fecha:
- 18 de noviembre de 2019 - 18:56
- Visibilidad:
- Público
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- IES VALDEBERNARDO
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- 05′ 01″
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