The manuscript of the allegorical short story The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, which has been preserved in the United States since its inception, will be presented to the public in France for the first time. This was announced by the regional publication Ouest-France.
Saint-Exupery wrote the book in New York, where he left after the Nazi occupation of France. Since then, the manuscript, along with the accompanying drawings, has been preserved in the United States: the writer gave it to his girlfriend Sylvia Hamilton before going to fight in North Africa in 1943. In 1968, she donated the manuscript to the library and museum. "Morgan" in Manhattan, from where this exhibit will be transferred to France for some time.
The exhibition "Meeting with the Little Prince", dedicated to this work, will be held from February 17 to June 26, 2022 at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. It will include more than 600 exhibits, including watercolor and pencil sketches, photographs, poems, newspaper clippings and letters.
The world-famous story was first published on April 6, 1943 in New York in French and English, with illustrations by the author himself. In Paris, the publication came only in the spring of the first postwar year. The work has been translated into 457 languages and is second only to the Bible in the number of translations.
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