The little prince sitting on the moon keyring

Le Petit Prince is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's best-known work in French. Published in 1943 at New York simultaneously with its English translation, it is a poetic and philosophical tale in the guise of a children's story.

The language, simple and uncluttered because it is intended to be understood by children, is in fact for the narrator the privileged vehicle for a symbolic conception of life. Each chapter recounts an encounter that leaves prince puzzled by the absurd behavior of "grown-ups". Each of these encounters can be read as an allegory.

The watercolors are part of the text and contribute to the purity of the language: simplicity and depth are the key qualities of the work.

It is an invitation from the author to rediscover the child in oneself, for "all grown-ups were children first. (But few of them remember.)". The book is dedicated to Léon Werth, but "when he was a little boy".

French version