title: Le Petit Prince (FRENCH language version)
author: Antoine de Saint Exupery
description: ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUP RY, the "Winged Poet," was born in Lyon, France, in 1900. He took his first flight at the age of eleven, and became a pilot at twenty-six. He was a pioneer of commercial aviation and flew in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. His writings include The Little Prince, Wind, Sand and Stars, Night Flight, Southern Mail, and Airman's Odyssey. In 1944, while serving with a French air squadron, he disappeared during a flight over the Mediterranean.
zlib_text: > _On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur._
  
  _L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux_.
  
  > _One can only see clearly with the heart._
  
  _What is essential is invisible to the eye_.
  
  _—Le Petit Prince_  
  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
  To those who are seeking, those who have sought, those who have found—the
  lucky devils! And especially, with great fondness and respect, to those who
  have ground through this unnatural process, and not only survived with their
  minds and hearts intact, but managed to find the needle in the haystack, and
  win the prize!
  
  Climbing Everest is easier, and surely less fraught with danger and despair.
  
  And to all of my friends, who have tried ineptly or expertly to find the
  perfect man for me, in other words someone at least as weird as I.
  
  To those of you who have set me up on blind dates, which will give me
  something to laugh at in my old age, I—almost!—forgive you.
  
  And above all, to my wonderful children, who have watched and shared, and
  loved and supported me