What nicer way to mark the passing of the days than with illustrations from the Little Prince? Ideal for the office or to slip into a handbag, this diary, designed by bookstore Petit Jour, is printed on glossy paper in a two page per week format.

The new addition to the catalogue is now available from the online store, and remember – it’s sales time!

The Little Prince motorway service area is the brainchild of Akiko Torii, the creator of the Little Prince and Saint-Exupéry Museum in Hakone. The Little Prince rest area covers a total of 20,000 m2 and includes a florist, a baker’s (where visitors can try pan bagnat sandwiches from the South of France), the Café Saint-Exupéry and a restaurant, “Le Petit Prince”, featuring Provençal cuisine. Motorists and passengers can stretch their legs with a stroll through a rose garden, discover the fox’s den and even admire a vineyard planted with vines.

Watch the videos for a foretaste of this unique location. Enjoy!

Summer’s here and the sales start today in the Little Prince online store. In this hot weather, why not treat your own little prince or princess to a tee shirt at sale prices? The Yves Delorme bathrobes are also marked down, so now is the ideal moment for bargains on these quality items.

There are lots of surprises awaiting you, so click now to visit the Little Prince online store.

The story takes place in the town of Crest, in the Drôme. Antiquarian Martial Duvert has in his possession a typescript of The Little Prince, written in Kabyle and also containing the drawings of the Little Prince. What makes the book so valuable is that it was produced by Saint-Exupéry himself. The origin of this priceless work can be traced back to La Bourride, a restaurant in Marseilles often frequented by Saint-Exupéry.

There are 150 copies of The Little Prince in Kabyle, circulated in 1950 as a tribute to Franco-Kabyle friendship. It was only when comparing his typescript to a copy of one of these that Martial Duvert realised that his copy dated from before 1950.

The manuscript of the final chapters of Pilote de Guerre (Flight to Arras) fetched a high price at auction: 74,900 euros, well over the initial estimate of 65,000 – 70,000 euros. A private buyer made the successful bid for the 15 autograph sheets, written between 1939 and 1949.

These are the key chapters of the book, in which Saint-Exupéry’s humanism is palpable; they speak of the war as seen from the airs, of man coming to the rescue of man. They include passages that were to find a place in the pages of Citadelle (The Wisdom of the Sands), a book Saint-Exupéry was writing in parallel and never completed.

Consult the timeline for more information.

Jean-Pierre Dizengremel was 10 years old when he met Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in Athens. After a lecture, his parents invited Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and his wife Consuelo to dinner. Young as he was, he remembers Antoine’s stature and the air of the aviator that clung to him. One of the amusing anecdotes Jean-Pierre recalls is how the pilot shared his food with the family cat, or blew bubbles for the Dizengremel’s dog to catch and burst.

A priceless account, so why not listen to it right now?

Florencia González is a dancer and choreographer with the Ballet d’Europe. “Le Petit Prince” is her first creation for the stage. In her interpretation, Florencia González was keen to focus on the love story between the Little Prince and his rose, as well as the absurdity of the different worlds the Little Prince travels through.

You don’t need to appreciate the finer points of ballet to enjoy the video below. You’ll have no trouble recognising the world of the Little Prince and the characters that surround him. Grace and the feeling of being inside a dream is what you will experience as you watch this video of Florencia González’s ballet.

Civic education is a subject we cannot afford to abandon in this day and age. It teaches us about fundamental rights, the concepts of equality and fraternity. In a textbook aimed at 12 to 13 year-olds, schools publisher Belin uses Antoine de Saint-Exupéry as an example to explain the concept of multiple identities. The book cites the author of the Little Prince on the grounds of his many fields of knowledge and experience, as a pilot for first l’Aéropostale and then the army, as a writer, journalist, etc.

It also addresses the concept of posterity, looking at the mark Saint-Exupéry has left on history and in people’s memories.

Publisher’s website: editions-belin.com