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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

1900 - 1944

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Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 – c. 31 July 1944), known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (UK: , US: , French: [ɑ̃twan də sɛ̃t‿ɛɡzypeʁi] ), was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator. Born in Lyon to an aristocratic family, Saint-Exupéry trained as a commercial pilot in the early 1920s, working airmail routes across Europe, Africa, and South America. Between 1926 and 1939, four of his literary works were published: the short story The Aviator, novels Southern Mail and Night Flight, and the memoir Wind, Sand and Stars. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is the 30th most popular writer (down from 27th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from France (down from 22nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Writer.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is most famous for his book, The Little Prince.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ranks 30 out of 7,302. Before him are Hesiod, Anton Chekhov, Rumi, Petrarch, Honoré de Balzac, and Aesop. After him are Gabriel García Márquez, Giovanni Boccaccio, Agatha Christie, H. G. Wells, Khalil Gibran, and Anne Frank.

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Among people born in 1900, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ranks 1. After him are Heinrich Himmler, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Erich Fromm, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Martin Bormann, Charles Francis Richter, Hans Adolf Krebs, Luis Buñuel, Wolfgang Pauli, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Among people deceased in 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ranks 2. Before him is Edvard Munch. After him are Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Romain Rolland, Erwin Rommel, Claus von Stauffenberg, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, William James Sidis, Charles Glover Barkla, Abdulmejid II, and Günther von Kluge.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ranks 24 out of 6,770. Before him are Edward IV of England (1442), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Charles de Gaulle (1890), Nostradamus (1503), Honoré de Balzac (1799), and Henri Matisse (1869). After him are Caracalla (188), Édith Piaf (1915), Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122), and Alain Delon (1935).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ranks 8. Before him are Voltaire (1694), Jules Verne (1828), Molière (1622), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Alexandre Dumas (1802), and Honoré de Balzac (1799). After him are Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Marcel Proust (1871), Denis Diderot (1713), Émile Zola (1840), and Gustave Flaubert (1821).

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