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Your paragraph of September 18 page 27 reading "Count Antoine de Saint Exupcry, novelist (Night Flight, Wind, Sand and Stars), War I veteran and France's No. i airman; as a French Army pilot" is inaccurate...
Saint Exupery is 39, conscription class 21, was 13 years old in 1914 when war started, 17 when it ended, donned a uniform for the first time in 1921 when he served for two years in the French air force in Strasbourg. As you would say: "no war veteran...
...have known Saint Exupery at two schools, namely St. Jean, Fribourg, Switzerland and Bossuet, Paris, from 1915 to 1919, also knew him in Strasbourg when he was in the air force. He prepared at Bossuet School for the "Borda," French Annapolis, flunked, was too old to try again. Chose the air force when conscripted, took his pilot's license with a civilian firm; the French Government only training for pilots its enlisted...
...never heard him use his title, probably "no Count, he." I do not think he would consider himself as France's No. i airman, holds no record that I know of, probably "no France's No. i airman, he." However, he is possibly the best known French pilot outside air circles and this due. to his writings, he also is a helluva nice fellow...
...blow, flags wave, men march. Last week the bugles were still; the flags gathered dust in museums; many of those marching men had made a separate peace. And into another sort of grave-the pigeonholes of diplomacy-went the principle for which U. S. blood made red puddles in French mud 21 years...