The year 2021 marks the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the French edition of the book The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The globally renowned literary work and the extraordinary life of France’s most famous writer-aviator are intimately linked to the Côte d’Azur, its history, and its territory.*
It was in Nice that Antoine and Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry confessed at the Basilica of Notre-Dame of the Assumption on the evening of April 21, 1931, and were civilly married at the City Hall on April 22.
This Friday, Christian Estrosi, accompanied by his deputy Jean-Luc Gagliolo, François d’Agay, nephew and godson of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, President of the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Foundation, and Martine Martinez-Fructuoso, representing the Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry estate, christened the City Hall’s Wedding Hall as “Consuelo and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.”
On this occasion, the publishing house Gallimard, represented by Secretary-General Alban Cerisier, presented a preview of the event book “Correspondence 1930-1944” dedicated to the unpublished letters exchanged by Consuelo and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and an exhibition dedicated to the couple was unveiled (to be discovered at the Masséna Museum upon its reopening).
