Editing Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (section)

==Writing career==
[[Image:Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.jpg|thumb|left|Saint-Exupéry photographed near [[Montreal|Montréal]], [[Québec]], in May 1942, on a speaking tour in support of France after its armistice with Germany. Saint-Exupéry was highly stressed and bedridden with [[cholecystitis]] at this time in his life.<ref name=SaintExCom1/><ref name=Guardian2010/>]]
[[File:Memorial plaque for Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in Markkleeberg (Germany), 2022.jpg|thumb|Memorial plaque for Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in Markkleeberg (Germany), 2022. In 1939, he came to see his German publisher Karl Rauch, who had printed the first German edition of "Terre des hommes".]]

Saint-Exupéry's first novella, ''[[L'Aviateur]]'' (''The Aviator''), was published in 1926 in a short-lived literary magazine, ''[[Le Navire d'Argent]]'' (''The Silver Ship'').<ref name=Ibert/> In 1929, his first book, ''[[Courrier sud (novel)|Courrier Sud]]'' (''Southern Mail'') was published. It chronicled his time flying the Casablanca-Dakar mail route.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Grown-Up Saint-Exupéry |url=https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2016/januaryfebruary/feature/the-grown-saint-exup%C3%A9ry#:~:text=His%20first%20novel%2C%20Southern%20Mail,musings%20on%20life%20and%20love. |website=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=12 June 2024 |archive-date=12 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240612060346/https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2016/januaryfebruary/feature/the-grown-saint-exup%C3%A9ry#:~:text=His%20first%20novel%2C%20Southern%20Mail,musings%20on%20life%20and%20love. |url-status=live }}</ref>

The 1931 publication of ''[[Night Flight (novel)|Night Flight]]'' established Saint-Exupéry as a rising star in the literary world. It was the first of his major works to gain widespread acclaim, and it won the [[prix Femina]]. The novel mirrored his experiences as a mail pilot and director of the [[Aeroposta Argentina]].{{sfnp|Schiff|1996|p=210}}

That same year, at [[Grasse]], Saint-Exupéry married [[Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry|Consuelo Suncin]] (née Suncín Sandoval), a once-divorced, once-widowed [[El Salvador|Salvadoran]] writer and artist, who Saint-Exupéry described as having possessed a bohemian spirit and a "viper's tongue".

Saint-Exupéry left and returned to his wife many times—he saw her as both his muse, but, over the long term, the source of much of his angst.<ref name=Guardian2000/> The relationship has been described as 'rocky', with Saint-Exupéry travelling frequently and indulging in numerous affairs, most notably with the Frenchwoman [[Hélène de Vogüé]] (1908–2003), known as "Nelly" and referred to as "Madame de B." in Saint-Exupéry [[biographies]].<ref name=Nelly/>{{#tag:ref|

Hélène (Nelly) de Vogüé (1908–2003), born Hélène Jaunez to a French businessman, became a Vogüé, in 1927 and had one child with him, a son named Patrice. Hélène is referred to only as "Madame de B." in multiple Saint-Exupéry biographies. This occurred due to agreements she made with writers before granting them access to her troves of the author-aviator's writings, which she deposited in the French national archives—from which they will not be released until 2053. It is believed she sought her anonymity to protect Saint-Exupéry's reputation, as during the [[Second World War]], the U.S. [[Office of Strategic Services|OSS]] suspected she was a secret [[Vichy]] agent and [[Nazi]] [[Collaborationism|collaborator]].<ref name=Telegraph2007/>

|group="Note"}} Vogüé became Saint-Exupéry's literary [[executrix]] after his death and also wrote her own Saint-Exupéry biography under a pseudonym, Pierre Chevrier.<ref name=NYT2000/>

Saint-Exupéry continued to write until the spring of 1943 when he left the United States with American troops bound for North Africa in the [[Second World War]].<ref>[https://www.poemhunter.com/antoine-de-saint-exupery/ebooks/?ebook=0&filename=antoine_de_saint-exupery_2012_3.pdf Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Poems] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230813093455/https://www.poemhunter.com/antoine-de-saint-exupery/ebooks/?ebook=0&filename=antoine_de_saint-exupery_2012_3.pdf |date=13 August 2023 }} poemhunter.com</ref>