Consuelo and Antoine de Saint Exupéry were deeply in love, often though Consuelo's exuberant and profoundly Latin behaviour was regarded as frivolous. Consuelo's exciting and imaginative life was often wrongly condemned. After her husband's death she suffered a lot of a lack of recognition. During all her life she sheltered behind the secure shadow of her husband. Many of her paintings and sculptures representing Le Petit Prince were signs of faithfulness towards her husband. Consuelo never forgot that Le Petit Prince was the last link with Saint Exupéry before he disappeared."Le Petit Prince is born out of your burning passion" wrote Saint Exupéry in 1943. Consuelo answered: "I am in the small living room in Bevin House; Le Petit Prince is in front of me on the table where he was born".

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