Photo Caption: Monument of Saint-Exupéry’s airplane in the Sahara desert.
His biographies were quite hot for the time and divulged numerous affairs, most notably with the Frenchwoman Hélène de Vogüé, known as “Nelly,” who was referred to as “Madame de B.” The two men suffered dehydration in the extreme desert heat before a local Bedouin, riding his camel, discovered them “just in the nick of time” to save their lives. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players. In Vegas, everybody’s gotta watch everybody else. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It tells how on the week following Christmas in 1935, just a year after I was born, he and his mechanic amazingly survived a crash in the Sahara desert. Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. Antoine is also known for his narrative The Little Prince and his aviation writings, including the lyrical 1939 Wind, Sand and Stars, which is Saint-Exupéry’s 1939 memoir of his experiences as a postal pilot. The novel was based on his experiences as an early mail pilot and the director of the Aeroposta Argentina airline in South America. “As a newly acclaimed author in the literary world, Night Flight, or Vol de nuit, was the first of Saint-Exupéry’s literary works and won him the prix Femina, a French literary prize created in 1904.
