The Little Prince

The manuscript of "The Little Prince" travels to France for the first time this week as part of an exhibition about its legendary author Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

The pilot-explorer wrote his beloved tale about an alien prince and his interstellar travels while in exile in the United States in 1942, having fled France after the Nazi invasion.

Early sketches of "The Little Prince," the world-famous creation of French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, have been found in storage in northern Switzerland, local media and an art expert said on Aug. 15.

Fans of one of the best known novels in the world, Antoine de Saint Exupery?s ?Le Petit Prince? (The Little Prince), will have a chance to engage with the book in a new exhibition in Istanbul. 

If Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the French writer, aviator and the seminal author of the third most-translated book in the world, "Le Petit Prince" (The Little Prince), were to see Turkey seven decades after his death, he would have to sit down on a planet of his own to digest it all.

Turkish collectors of one of the best known novels in the world, Antoine de Saint Exupery's "Le Petit Prince" (The Little Prince), have come together in Ankara at an exhibition.