Lyon

Plaque on the building where Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in 1900, a scion of French nobility. He is best remembered as a writer, the author of Le Petit Prince The Little Prince (1943), Courrier Sud Southern Mail (1929), Vol de nuit Night Flight (1931), Terre des hommes Wind, Sand and Stars (1939), Pilote de guerre Flight to Arras (1942), Lettre à un otage Letter to a Hostage (1944). He became a career aviator and flew frequent reconnaissance missions durng the war for the Allies.

On March 12, 1950, Major Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was awarded a posthumous citation in the Order of the Army Air Force in the Official Journal, for having "proven, in 1940 as well as in 1943, his passion to serve and his faith in the destiny of his country" and "dying gloriously on July 31, 1944, on the way back from a reconnaissance mission over his country under enemy occupation."

Source : Carte des lieux de mémoire de la ville de Lyon