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9 unusual facts about The Little Prince


2578 Saint-Exupéry

The name is appropriate, as Saint-Exupéry's best-known character, The Little Prince, lives on an asteroid.

Audrey Pauley

The effects team tried adding a "big piece of earth" under the building, but Paul Rabwin felt it looked too much like The Little Prince, so the piece of earth was removed.

Bloch MB.170

The MB.174 will also be remembered as the aircraft flown by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince during the campaign.

Cornelius H. DeLamater

The DeLamater Mansion still stands today on the Eatons Neck peninsula, and was rented in 1942 by French author Antoine de Saint Exupéry who wrote The Little Prince while at the mansion.

Donna McKechnie

In 1974, she co-starred with Richard Kiley and Bob Fosse in the unsuccessful musical film version of the classic The Little Prince.

Federico Castellón

Over the years, Castellón’s work as an illustrator would eventually include Bulfinch's Mythology, The Story of Marco Polo, and The Little Prince.

Hakka Chinese

The popular The Little Prince has also been translated into Hakka (2000), specifically the Miaoli dialect of Taiwan (itself a variant of the Sixian dialect).

Justin Whalin

Whalin has been working as an actor since the age of eleven, when he debuted in the title role of the play The Little Prince at San Francisco's Victoria Theatre.

The Little Prince and the Aviator

Based on the classic book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the musical deviates from the original in that aviator Toni, whose plane crashes in the Sahara Desert, explicitly is real-life author Saint-Exupéry, and the plot alternates flashbacks to actual events in his life with his interaction with the fictional Little Prince, a refugee from Asteroid B6-12.


Shirley Ann Russell

Russell's other credits include The Little Prince, Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Return of the Soldier, The Razor's Edge, Hope and Glory, The Bride, Yanks, Gulliver's Travels, I Dreamed of Africa, and Shackleton.

Thomas De Koninck

According to a well known rumor, he would have inspired Antoine de Saint-Exupery for the creation of The Little Prince when Saint-Exupery was living in the house of Charles De Koninck in Québec city, in 1942 (see La transcendance de l'homme : études en hommage à Thomas De Koninck, Jean-François Mattéi et Jean-Marc Narbonne (ed.)).

Thomas Sautner

Reviewer Eva Riebler of the Austrian literary magazine Etcetera pinpoints to the author's intention to "save the wisdom of the Yeniche people", and she compares the first book even to The Little Prince of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.


see also

Cedie

Cedie also known as Cedie: Ang Munting Prinsipe (means Cedie: The Little Prince) is a 1996 Filipino family film loosely based on the popular anime Little Lord Fauntleroy which in turn based on the children's novel of the same name by English playwright and author Frances Hodgson Burnett.