Paris exhibit shows 'The Little Prince' author as visual artist

A Paris exhibition is displaying the manuscript of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's 'The Little Prince' for the first time in his native France, along with dozens of drawings that highlight the author's talents as an illustrator 🦊

PARIS, Feb 16 - A Paris exhibition is displaying the manuscript of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's "The Little Prince" for the first time in his native France, along with dozens of drawings that highlight the author's talents as an illustrator.

The exhibition also showcases watercolours and drawings, as well as pictures and extracts from his correspondence that show Saint-Exupery was a prolific graphic artist with a knack for simple lines."It is touching to see how Saint-Exupery needed to draw to express himself. He is known as a writer and an aviator, but here we also discover him as an illustrator," said Anne Monier Vanryb, curator of the Paris Museum of Decorative Arts.

"Saint-Exupery was very proud of the fact that the book's title page specified that it was with drawings by the author, as he felt it was a real achievement to have managed to illustrate it himself," Monier Vanryb said.

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