![]() Frequently, he wrote at the Park Avenue home of his close friend Silvia Hamilton Reinhardt. He spent two years living near Central Park and on Manhattan’s East Side and renting a summer home on Long Island’s North Shore. Saint-Exupéry came to New York after France fell to Germany in 1940. On Earth, he encounters a fox who teaches him: “What is essential is invisible to the eye.” The phrase is the book’s central theme and one Saint-Exupéry revised 15 times, including the version “What matters cannot be seen.” On his way to Earth, he visits other planets and meets a king, a conceited man, a drunkard, a lamplighter and a geographer. ![]() “The Little Prince” tells the adventures of a boy who hails from a tiny asteroid no larger than a house. He died while piloting a reconnaissance flight in 1944, weeks before the liberation of Paris. Saint-Exupéry, a French aviator and best-selling author, didn’t live to see his book published in France after the war. He was writing it just within miles of where this exhibition is being shown.” “It focuses on the emergence of this work in New York during the war. “Because the manuscript brings you back to the moment of creation, we wanted to set the exhibition in the place and time of creation,” she said. Haber/Morgan Library & Museumvia Associated Press) ![]() A drawing from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's beloved children’s tale “The Little Prince,” which is the subject of am exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum. ![]()
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