At 8:45 a.m. on July 31, 1944, Saint-Exupéry piloted the "Leitnin" No. 223, which took off from the Poleta Airport on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, and went to his hometown Lyon for reconnaissance, but unexpectedly lost it. contact, and was finally found to be missing.
The disappearance of Saint-Exupéry led to numerous speculations, with rumors that he had defected, but that rumors soon disappeared as unfounded. Speculations that the lack of oxygen caused death and the engine was destroyed were noisy for a while, and some people said that the reconnaissance plane was destroyed by the German army, and nearby residents also confirmed that the plane did fall that day. Until the fall of 1992, people used sonar and micro-submarines to scout the area and found no wreckage of the plane. To this day, the cause of Saint-Exupéry's death remains a mystery.
In the book "The Little Prince" by Saint-Exupéry, the protagonist pilot "I" is also missing because of a plane crash. But fortunately, the pilot in the book finally escaped safely and returned to the world, oh yes, he also met a little prince from another planet, a little prince who has fascinated people for a century. And Saint-Exupéry is forever sleeping in an unknown corner.
Two years ago, Saint-Exupé was still working on The Little Prince. His long-separated wife, Kang Suai Luo, traveled across the ocean to meet her husband in the United States. The couple's marriage was not harmonious. After marriage, they often quarreled, got angry, and ran away. After the defeat of France, Saint-Exupéry went into exile in the United States, leaving his wife alone in France, which was trampled by fascists. After the little prince left the planet in the book, he also worried about his rose for a time. "If the sheep also eat the small shrubs, will it also eat the flowers?" The little prince was afraid of the draft, ferocious tigers, and sheep without ropes and masks, afraid that they would accidentally I hurt my beloved rose.
Yes, the little prince with wheat-colored hair was the incarnation of Saint-Exupéry, and the rose that was left on the planet was the prototype of Saint-Exupéry's wife Consuelo, a beautiful flower. Proud flower. To a certain extent, it can be said that Saint-Exupéry used the little prince to describe his love and concern for his wife who lives alone in France. "You know that rose is you." Saint-Exupéry once admitted to his wife her connection to the rose.
The acquaintance and love of Saint-Exupéry and his wife Consuelo is a romantic story. In the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires, known as the "Paris of South America", the two fell in love at first sight. Saint-Exupéry "kidnapped" Consuelo on the plane, and then wooed after the crash as a threat. Their beginnings were full of adventure and excitement, even at the cost of their lives. I think Kang Sue-ra must be excited and happy at that time, because there is such a man who loves himself with his life. There is no denying that the French are always so romantic.
In fact, Saint-Exupéry later published The Little Prince, not to his wife Consuelo, but to his longtime friend, a Jewish writer, Welles. Yes, it was Leon Wells, who left a message on the title page of Saint-Exupéry saying, "Once a child."
Wells, born in 1878, 22 years older than Saint-Exupéry, was a Spanish anarchist and a Jewish writer. He believed in Trotskyism and attacked Stalinism. He was an out-and-out "Trotskyist", but Saint-Exupéry was once fond of the Soviet Union. The two met at a coffee shop in Paris through a friend's introduction. Despite their political differences, the two hit it off. After the publication of The Little Prince, Saint-Exupéry dedicated the book to Welles, much to the confusion and dissatisfaction of his wife Consuelo.
It is reported that this incident also became one of the fuses of the quarrel between the two, and later the relationship between the two was unprecedentedly tense.
In April 1943, Saint-Exupéry went to North Africa to participate in the war, and the task was aerial reconnaissance. At that time, he was 43 years old and was already a "flying veteran". He was covered in injuries. Every time he performed a mission, it was almost always a mechanic who helped him "carry" him into the cockpit.
Saint-Exupéry has been obsessed with machinery since he was a child and has a passion for flying. At that time, there was an airport near her school, where the Wroblewski brothers of Polish descent used to test flights, and Saint-Exupéry used to hang around there.
In 1921, he was drafted into the army and was incorporated into the flying brigade as a repairman. Soon, he was frugal, collected tuition to participate in civil aviation flight training, and finally obtained a military pilot certificate. The teenager who loves flying can finally realize his dream of flying. But he was injured in an accident two years later and was forced to retire.
Fortunately, in October 1926, on the recommendation of the principal of the secondary school, Saint-Exupéry was able to enter Lateère Airways (the predecessor of Air France) to continue his dream of flying. During this period, he has lived and died several times, thanks to the blessing of the God of Destiny.
In June 1940, France fell, and in November of the same year, Saint-Exupéry went into exile in the United States. While recovering from injury in the United States, he began to write "The Little Prince". In the spring of 1943, The Little Prince was published. Later, it was as if it was a fate in the dark. Like the pilots in the book, Saint-Exupéry crashed and fell.
In the last days of Saint-Exupéry, he wrote letter after letter to Consuelo on the night of the battlefield, he poured out his nostalgia and his regrets, "You are the salt of the earth. Come back, it was you who reawakened all my love. Kang Suai Luo, I understand, I will love you forever." However, between the two is eternal separation.
Since then, Consuelo has not remarried and has been engaged in artistic creation until his death in 1979.
I firmly and persistently believe that the person who brought us "The Little Prince" must have been invited to planet B612 by the little prince with golden hair. There are two small volcanoes on that planet and a beautiful and proud rose.
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