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ON THE TRAIL by Antoine de Saint-Exupery


in late August this year we're going to Corsica.
I saw a report in Quark that I hit on a writer that I really like (I've read "The Little Prince ).

from Wikipedia

Antoine Jean Baptiste Marie Roger de Saint-Exupéry (Lyon, June 29, 1900 - Mar Tirreno, 31 July 1944) was a French writer and aviator. His death on the flight, which took place on the Mediterranean Sea, in the sky of Corsica, at the end of the Second World War in many ways has remained mysterious until it has been located and recovered the wreckage of his plane hit by a German fighter in the sea off the coast of Marseille. It was a Luftwaffe pilot to shoot down the aircraft, but the truth is come to light only in 2008.
On June 29, 2000, the centenary of his birth, has been named the airport in Lyon, hitherto called Lyon Satolas .

The mystery of the death

shooting in the same year and returned to the business aviation in Europe, he was given a series of five reconnaissance missions between Sardinia and Corsica. Since the last never comes back, falling, in the circumstances now completely cleared (thanks to the Luftwaffe pilot Horst Rippert statements, which claimed responsibility his killing), in the Tyrrhenian Sea after being taken off with an F-5 (a reconnaissance version of the Lockheed Lightning P-38) from the military base village in Corsica in the direction of Lyon (many spoke for a long time of an accident or suicide) . It was July 31, 1944.

Poetics of the similarity of its end with the fate of the protagonist of his most famous novel.

After his death in 1948 leaves Citadel, collection of notes and thoughts. It will instead be published in 1982 another collection of notes, entitled Ecrits de guerre.

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