WRITER

Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

1901 - 1979

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Consuelo, comtesse de Saint-Exupéry (née Suncín de Sandoval; 10 April 1901 – 28 May 1979), was a Salvadoran-French writer and artist, and was married to the French aristocrat, writer and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry has received more than 124,025 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry is the 1,550th most popular writer (down from 1,484th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from El Salvador and the most popular Salvadoran Writer.

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Notable Works

Kingdom of the rocks
Art, French Personal narratives, World War, 1939-1945
Memorias de Oppède
Art, French Personal narratives, Arte
Mémoires de la rose
Esposas de autores, Écrivains français, Autores franceses
Correspondance
Correspondence, French Authors, Authors' spouses
The Tale of the Rose
Authors, french, France, biography
The tale of the rose
Air pilots, Authors' spouses, Biography
In the spring of 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupery left his wife, Consuelo, to return to the war in Europe. Soon after, he disappeared while flying a reconnaissance mission over occupied France. Neither his plane nor his body was ever found. The Tale of the Rose is Consuelo's account of their extraordinary marriage. It is a love story about a pilot and his wife, a man who yearned for the stars and the spirited woman who gave him the strength to fulfill his dreams.Consuelo Suncin Sandoval de Gomez and Antoine de Saint-Exupery met in Buenos Aires in 1930--she a seductive young widow, he a brave pioneer of early aviation, decorated for his acts of heroism in the deserts of North Africa. He was large in his passions, a fierce loner with a childlike appetite for danger. She was frail and voluble, exotic and capricious. Within hours of their first encounter, he knew he would have her as his wife.Their love affair and marriage would take them from Buenos Aires to Paris to Casablanca to New York. It would take them through periods of betrayal and infidelity, pain and intense passion, devastating abandonment and tender, poetic love. Several times in the course of their marriage they would go their separate ways, but always they would return. The Tale of the Rose is the story of a man of extravagant dreams, and of the woman who was his muse, the inspiration for the Little Prince's beloved rose--unique in all the world--whom he could not live with and could not live without.Written on Long Island in a quiet spell of reconciliation, The Little Prince was Antoine's greatest gift to the woman he never stopped loving, the only child to emerge from their union. The Tale of the Rose is Consuelo's reply--the love letter she never could write to her husband--a fable of its own, just as magical, poetic, and tragic as The Little Prince.
The Tale of the Rose
Authors, french, France, biography
Memorias de Oppède
Art, French Personal narratives, Arte
Mémoires de la rose
Esposas de autores, Écrivains français, Autores franceses
The tale of the rose
Air pilots, Authors' spouses, Biography
In the spring of 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupery left his wife, Consuelo, to return to the war in Europe. Soon after, he disappeared while flying a reconnaissance mission over occupied France. Neither his plane nor his body was ever found. The Tale of the Rose is Consuelo's account of their extraordinary marriage. It is a love story about a pilot and his wife, a man who yearned for the stars and the spirited woman who gave him the strength to fulfill his dreams.Consuelo Suncin Sandoval de Gomez and Antoine de Saint-Exupery met in Buenos Aires in 1930--she a seductive young widow, he a brave pioneer of early aviation, decorated for his acts of heroism in the deserts of North Africa. He was large in his passions, a fierce loner with a childlike appetite for danger. She was frail and voluble, exotic and capricious. Within hours of their first encounter, he knew he would have her as his wife.Their love affair and marriage would take them from Buenos Aires to Paris to Casablanca to New York. It would take them through periods of betrayal and infidelity, pain and intense passion, devastating abandonment and tender, poetic love. Several times in the course of their marriage they would go their separate ways, but always they would return. The Tale of the Rose is the story of a man of extravagant dreams, and of the woman who was his muse, the inspiration for the Little Prince's beloved rose--unique in all the world--whom he could not live with and could not live without.Written on Long Island in a quiet spell of reconciliation, The Little Prince was Antoine's greatest gift to the woman he never stopped loving, the only child to emerge from their union. The Tale of the Rose is Consuelo's reply--the love letter she never could write to her husband--a fable of its own, just as magical, poetic, and tragic as The Little Prince.
Correspondance
Correspondence, French Authors, Authors' spouses
Kingdom of the rocks
Art, French Personal narratives, World War, 1939-1945

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry ranks 1,550 out of 7,302Before her are Tarjei Vesaas, Ausiàs March, José de Acosta, Usama ibn Munqidh, Elizabeth of the Trinity, and John Dickson Carr. After her are Junji Ito, Raymond Roussel, Elizabeth Bishop, Pío Baroja, Antoine de Montchrestien, and Ben Shapiro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry ranks 81Before her are Eric Voegelin, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Adelaide Hall, Yang Kaihui, Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria, and Ödön von Horváth. After her are Souvanna Phouma, Pier Giorgio Frassati, Chen Yi, Nina Berberova, Hendrik Verwoerd, and Barbara Cartland. Among people deceased in 1979, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry ranks 58Before her are Heinz Reinefarth, Alfredo Ottaviani, Nicos Poulantzas, Pier Luigi Nervi, Charles W. Morris, and Nereo Rocco. After her are Richard Rodgers, Elizabeth Bishop, Konstantin Simonov, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Yukio Tsuda, and Jacques Mesrine.

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In El Salvador

Among people born in El Salvador, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry ranks 3 out of 39Before her are Óscar Romero (1917), and Salvador Sánchez Cerén (1944). After her are Nayib Bukele (1981), Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (1882), Farabundo Martí (1893), Unica Zürn (1916), Mágico González (1958), José Napoleón Duarte (1925), Mauricio Funes (1959), Alfredo Cristiani (1947), and Fidel Sánchez Hernández (1917).

Among WRITERS In El Salvador

Among writers born in El Salvador, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry ranks 1After her are Unica Zürn (1916).