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SAINT-EXUPÉRY Antoine de (1900-1944)
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SAINT-EXUPÉRY Antoine de (1900-1944)
Exceptional autograph letter signed to Louise DE VILLMORIN,
Paris [June 1931]| 1 page in-4, one edge very slightly frayed.
"I thought you were in America. I regret that you were able to learn of my marriage from others than me. I wish I had told you. No one could have understood better than you my peace of today - and, I am sure, love it. It does not command me to forget: I will not do you, nor any other, this insult. My friendship is even greater for being calm. I am sending you this little book. Don't show it off, because the world never understands anything.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Louise de Vilmorin had become engaged in June 1923, but because of Saint-Exupéry's lacklustre situation and the danger of his job, the engagement was broken off a few months later, on Louise's initiative. This break-up plunged Saint-Exupéry into deep sadness. His lost lover inspired the character of Geneviève in Courrier Sud, published in 1929. A married woman, she follows the hero Jacques Bernis in his adventures but this life does not suit her. Bernis therefore took her back to her husband.
Saint-Exupéry married Consuelo Suncín-Sandoval on 22 April 1931, while Louise had married an American industrialist, Henry Leigh Hunt, a few years earlier. The little book in question here is Vol de Nuit, published in the summer of 1931, and which was a considerable success, winning the Prix Fémina.
Exceptional autograph letter signed to Louise DE VILLMORIN,
Paris [June 1931]| 1 page in-4, one edge very slightly frayed.
"I thought you were in America. I regret that you were able to learn of my marriage from others than me. I wish I had told you. No one could have understood better than you my peace of today - and, I am sure, love it. It does not command me to forget: I will not do you, nor any other, this insult. My friendship is even greater for being calm. I am sending you this little book. Don't show it off, because the world never understands anything.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Louise de Vilmorin had become engaged in June 1923, but because of Saint-Exupéry's lacklustre situation and the danger of his job, the engagement was broken off a few months later, on Louise's initiative. This break-up plunged Saint-Exupéry into deep sadness. His lost lover inspired the character of Geneviève in Courrier Sud, published in 1929. A married woman, she follows the hero Jacques Bernis in his adventures but this life does not suit her. Bernis therefore took her back to her husband.
Saint-Exupéry married Consuelo Suncín-Sandoval on 22 April 1931, while Louise had married an American industrialist, Henry Leigh Hunt, a few years earlier. The little book in question here is Vol de Nuit, published in the summer of 1931, and which was a considerable success, winning the Prix Fémina.