In 1964 Consuelo de Saint Exupéry wrote: "I always shake all over, when I open my husband's files containing the letters, the drawings, and the telegrams. These secret messages full of a lively affection have the tragic odour of my past... These messages were my own property when they were sent to me, today they belong to everyone".

Consuelo was always delighted to show the text written by Saint Exupéry in 1943, "prayer that might be said by Consuelo every evening". :

Lord you do not need to bother much. Make me simply as I am. I look vain in simple things, but in significant things I am humble. I look selfish in simple things, but in significant things I am able to give everything, even my own life. I look impure in simple things, but I am happy only in purity.

Lord, make me the same, always, to the women my husband can read in me.

Lord, Lord, save my husband because he truly loves me and without him I will never be an orphan. But Lord makes that he dies before me, because even though he looks strong he gets distressed when he cannot hear me making noise in the house. Lord saves him from distress. Make that I always make noise in the house, even if I have, from time to time to break something.

Help me to remain faithful and blind to those he despises or to those who hate him. It brings him misfortune because he made his life through me.

Protect, Lord, our house
Your Consuelo, Amen