Avion d antoine de st exupery biography
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Antoine de st exupery biography.
Who said: "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people... but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea"
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Antoine de Saint Exupéry (1900-1944, pronounced Sant-Exoopairee), was a French writer and aviator.
He was born and brought up in Lyon, the third of five children.
Avion d antoine de st exupery biography
After studying architecture, he began his military service in 1921 with the 2nd Regiment of Chasseurs (a light cavalry regiment) and was sent to Strasbourg for pilot training. The following year, having obtained his pilot's license, he was given the opportunity to transfer to the air force but, under pressure from his family, instead took an office job in Paris.
In 1926, he returned to the skies becoming one of the pioneers of the international postal service working the route