![]() ![]() In 1931, Vol de Nuit (Night Flight), which won the Prix Femina, was published. In 1929, Saint-Exup?ry moved to South America, where he was appointed director of the Aeroposta Argentina Company. He became the director of Cap Juby airfield in Rio de Oro, Sahara. ![]() In 1928, he published his first book, Courrier-Sud (Southern Mail), and flew the Casablanca/Dakar route. His first tale L'Aviateur (The Aviator) was published in the magazine Le Navire d'argent. He worked on the A?ropostale between Toulouse and Dakar. Later he complained that those who flew the more advanced aircraft were more like accountants than pilots. He became one of the pioneers of international postal flight in the days when aircrafts had few instruments and pilots flew by instinct. In 1921, he began his military service in the 2nd Regiment of Chasseurs, and was sent to Strasbourg for training as a pilot. Antoine Marie Roger de Saint-Exup?ry was born in Lyon into an old family of provincial nobility After failing his final exams at a preparatory school, he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study architecture. ![]()
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