When Antoine de Saint Exupéry met Consuelo in 1929, he was already a well known aviator and a talented writer. Consuelo was an attractive pretty young lady. Beautiful expressive eyes lit up her regular featured face. She was fully imaginative, and spoke French with a light accent which added to her charm. It is essential to know Consuelo to understand the man who took her as his wife.

Consuelo's influence on her husband was obvious because she was essentially an artist and a story teller. Saint Exupéry as a writer and sketcher drew on the original poetic sources of his wife to write and illustrate some of his texts and particularly his last book Le Petit Prince.

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