PARIS — It was a romance that helped inspire one of the great works of 20th-century fiction and a bitter conflict between his heirs, but a new book of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s love letters suggests a reconciliation may finally have been achieved.
French aviator, poet and war hero Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s “The Little Prince” is said to have sold more than 200 million copies in 450 different translations since it was first published in 1943.
Much of the story hinges around the mysterious star-traveling prince’s relationship with a rose — delicate and demanding — that he has been tending on his home planet.
Saint-Exupery’s real-life rose was Consuelo Suncin, a Salvadora…
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