Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin
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Marie Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin, commonly known as Louise de Vilmorin, was a French novelist, poet and journalist. Vilmorin was best known as a writer of delicate but mordant tales, often set in aris
Château de Vilmorin (2016)
Square Louise-de-Vilmorin (2009)
Tomb of Louise de Vilmorin (2018)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.
Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin
…express in my extreme youth with Marie Laurencin in Les Biches". (Ivry 1996) As a young woman, in 1923, she had been engaged to novelist and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; however, the engagement was called off, even though Saint-Exupéry gave up flying for a while after her family protested such a risky occupation…
Saint-Exupéry in 1933
Birthplace of Saint-Exupéry in the Presqu'île section of Lyon, on the street now named after him, in blue at lower left
Saint-Exupéry photographed near Montréal, Québec, in May 1942, on a speaking tour in support of France after its armistice with Germany. Saint-Exupéry was highly stressed and bedridden with cholecystitis at this time in his life.
The vain and petulant Rose in The Little Prince was likely inspired by Saint-Exupéry's Salvadoran wife, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry.