French Roots: can you help us improve Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's profile?

Question

Surprisingly, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the famous author of The Little Prince, did not have a Wikitree profile until recently.

He now has one, but it is bare-bones with two biography stubs in English and French. I'm asking for your help to improve his profile and give him a biography worthy of his accomplishments (I'm really not good at writing anything beyond basic genealogic facts):

- as an author (The Little Prince has been translated in 300 languages and dialects, and wrote a few other fine books)

- as an aviator, (a successful commercial pilote, he worked airmail routes over three continents)

- as a resistant: he was on a reconnaissance mission when he disappeared over the Mediterranean and has Mort pour la France status.

He was also an aristocrat, though only distantly related to the head of the Saint-Exupéry family. The Saint-Exupéry family has been traced to the 13th century.

Can you help add some life to Antoine's biography (I would gladly translate in French), find categories where he might fit, perhaps add family members to help connect him ? Please post here ! We would love to see many French Roots volunteers participate.

Remember, if you wish to add family members, to check that the names are correct and conform to Euro Aristo naming standards (please ask if in doubt!)

Thank you !

Comments

Can’t help with the profile, but I really did enjoy The Little Prince when I was young. We read the French version as part of our language lessons.

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This is lovely, Lynda. We (Emma and Greg and I) thought we were repairing an omission when we decided to start the profile.

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Glad you did.

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Lynda, I also had to read the French version in high school French.  Fantastic stuff! :-)

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Emma, It still conjures up a picture in my mind of him stood on the edge of his asteroid.

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I have an almost physical memory of the first time I opened the book and read the first pages (with that picture of the elephant inside the boa looking like a hat)... I can still smell the book.

Answer 1

Some sources and bio info

http://www.who2.com/bio/antoine-de-saint-exupery/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint-Exupery (accent on last e)

https://www.biography.com/news/the-little-prince-antoine-de-saint-exupery-facts

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/little-prince-mystery-solved/

http://www.aviation-history.com/airmen/exupery.htm

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/antoine-de-saint-exupery-746.php

https://www.geni.com/people/Antoine-de-Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry/6000000004868866518   actually has some sources listed

Comments

Great Laura - and please feel free to add directly to the profile itself, if you feel inspired !

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Right now I am pretty booked up.  If someone else has the time go for it.  If not, I will try to get to it sometime in the next 2 weeks.

Answer 2

I will check to see what I have available here, and get back to you asap.

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Thank you Ann. And welcome to the French Roots project !

Answer 3

I'm currently working on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's maternal ancestry.  His maternal grandfather was from Marseille, and that part of his ancestry is easy to research and document.

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I'm trying write his bio (it really MUST be finished for tomorrow). Thanks for adding the Légion d'honneur reference - his file contains really interesting stuff about the reasons he got the decoration, for those who read French.

Answer 4

What would be the preferred LNAB for Elisabeth Alix Blouquier's mother?  The birth act for Justine Charlotte Taschereau des Pictières was registered in Tours on 5 germinal XIII (26 mars 1805).  Should we include the des Pictières in the LNAB?  So far, I've omitted the leading "de" from LNABs but have otherwise included compound names (e.g., de Rommanet de Lestrange  becomes Rommanet de Lestrange).

The Taschereau lineage is of particular interest to me, as one of the presumed extended family members left Tours for New France and was the founder of a distinguished family in Québec.

Comments

In this case I would favor Taschereau. See: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famille_Taschereau (citing des Pictières as one of the branches)

I'm not sure why Romanet de Lestrange turned out like this, will have to check.

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Thanks for your help with this.  I'm certainly fine with using Taschereau.  It's not a very common name on either side of the Atlantic, so there's not much need for disambiguation between family lines.