275- tir64
Bronze medal, from the Paris Mint (cornucopia hallmark since January 1, 1880).
Minted in 1968 .
Minimal traces of handling, old patina, beginning of oxidation in the hollows.
Original strike from 1968.
Engraver / Artist / Sculptor : Paul BELMONDO (1898-1982).
Dimensions : 68mm.
Weight : 176 g.
275- tir64
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Dimensions : 68mm.
Weight : 176 g.
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Hallmark on the edge (mark on the edge) : cornucopia + bronze + 1968.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, born June 29, 1900 in Lyon2 and disappeared in flight on July 31, 1944 off the coast of Marseille, is a French writer, poet, aviator and reporter.
Born into a French nobility family, he spent a happy childhood despite the premature deaths of his father and a brother. A dreamy student, he nevertheless obtained his baccalaureate in 1917. After his failure in the naval school competition, he turned towards fine arts and architecture. Becoming a pilot during his military service in 1922, he was hired in 1926 by the Latécoère company (future Aéropostale). It transported mail from Toulouse to Senegal then reached South America in 1929. At the same time, he became a writer. Inspired by his experiences as an aviator, he published his first novels: Courrier sud in 1929 and especially Vol de nuit in 1931, which enjoyed great success and received the Femina prize.
From 1932, Saint-Exupéry devoted himself to journalism and air raids. He undertook major reporting in Indochina in 1934, in Moscow in 1935, in Spain in 1936, which will nourish his reflection on humanist values. Terre des hommes, published in 1939, received the Grand Prix du roman from the French Academy.
In 1939, he served in the Air Force, being assigned to an aerial reconnaissance squadron. After the armistice of June 1940, he left France for New York with the objective of bringing the United States into the war and became one of the voices of the Resistance there. Dreaming of action, he finally joined, in the spring of 1944, in Sardinia then in Corsica, a unit responsible for photographic reconnaissance in preparation for the landing in Provence. He disappeared at sea with his plane, a Lockheed P-38 Lightning, during his mission on July 31, 1944. He was declared “dead for France”. On September 3, 2003, his plane was found and formally identified off the coast of Marseille.
The Little Prince, written in New York during the Second World War and illustrated with his own watercolors, was published in 1943 in New York, then in France by Gallimard in 1946, posthumously. This philosophical tale, imbued with both lightness and pessimism regarding human nature, quickly became a huge worldwide success.
Biography
Youth and training
Building in Lyon where Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in 1900.
Son of Martin Louis Marie Jean de Saint Exupéry (1863-1904), without profession3, and Andrée Marie Louise Boyer de Fonscolombe3, Antoine Jean-Baptiste Marie Roger de Saint-ExupéryNote 1 was born on June 29, 1900 at 8, rue du Peyrat , in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon4, in a family of French nobility3.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry at the Notre-Dame-de-Sainte-Croix school in Le Mans in 1910-1911. Detail of the photograph of the sixth grade class.
He shared a happy childhood with his four brothers and sisters. But in 1904, his father died, struck down by a cerebral hemorrhage at only forty-one years old, at La Foux station. Marie de Saint-Exupéry raised her five children: Marie-Madeleine, known as Biche, Simone, known as Monot, Antoine, known as Tonio, François and Gabrielle, known as Didi. She is helped by the Austrian governess Paula Hentschel (1883-1965), who will stay with them until they become adults. In his novel War Pilot, the author paid tribute to him in these terms: “I went back in my memory to childhood, to rediscover the feeling of sovereign protection. There is no protection for men. Once you're a man, you're let go... But who can do anything against the little boy whose hand an all-powerful Paula has tightly locked? Paula, I used your shadow as a shield…”5.
Antoine's mother takes this premature widowhood badly, although her optimistic nature allows her to meet her obligations. With a skin-deep sensitivity, an artist (she practices painting6), she forges special bonds with Antoine and offers him an excellent education, something difficult at the time for a single woman. She transmits to her beloved son values that he will maintain throughout his life: honesty, respect for others, without social exclusivity. An exceptional woman, she devoted her life to her children, with a humanism that Saint-Exupéry cultivated throughout his travels[ref. necessary].
Until the age of ten, he spent his childhood between the castle of La Môle in the Var, property of his maternal grandmother, and the castle of Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in Ain, property of his aunt Mme Tricaud.
In 1908, he entered the eighth grade with the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Lyon. At the end of the summer of 1909, Marie de Saint-Exupéry moved with her children to Le Mans, 21, rue du Clos-Margot, near her father-in-law who lived at 39, rue Pierre-Belon7. Antoine entered the Jesuit college Notre-Dame-de-Sainte-Croix on the following October 7. A mediocre student, described as undisciplined and dreamer, he is attracted by elsewhere, the distance, adventure, seeking ever since
Born into a French nobility family, he spent a happy childhood despite the premature deaths of his father and a brother. A dreamy student, he nevertheless obtained his baccalaureate in 1917. After his failure in the naval school competition, he turned towards fine arts and architecture. Becoming a pilot during his military service in 1922, he was hired in 1926 by the Latécoère company (future Aéropostale). It transported mail from Toulouse to Senegal then reached South America in 1929. At the same time, he became a writer. Inspired by his experiences as an aviator, he published his first novels: Courrier sud in 1929 and especially Vol de nuit in 1931, which enjoyed great success and received the Femina prize.
From 1932, Saint-Exupéry devoted himself to journalism and air raids. He undertook major reporting in Indochina in 1934, in Moscow in 1935, in Spain in 1936, which will nourish his reflection on humanist values. Terre des hommes, published in 1939, received the Grand Prix du roman from the French Academy.
In 1939, he served in the Air Force, being assigned to an aerial reconnaissance squadron. After the armistice of June 1940, he left France for New York with the objective of bringing the United States into the war and became one of the voices of the Resistance there. Dreaming of action, he finally joined, in the spring of 1944, in Sardinia then in Corsica, a unit responsible for photographic reconnaissance in preparation for the landing in Provence. He disappeared at sea with his plane, a Lockheed P-38 Lightning, during his mission on July 31, 1944. He was declared “dead for France”. On September 3, 2003, his plane was found and formally identified off the coast of Marseille.
The Little Prince, written in New York during the Second World War and illustrated with his own watercolors, was published in 1943 in New York, then in France by Gallimard in 1946, posthumously. This philosophical tale, imbued with both lightness and pessimism regarding human nature, quickly became a huge worldwide success.
Biography
Youth and training
Building in Lyon where Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in 1900.
Son of Martin Louis Marie Jean de Saint Exupéry (1863-1904), without profession3, and Andrée Marie Louise Boyer de Fonscolombe3, Antoine Jean-Baptiste Marie Roger de Saint-ExupéryNote 1 was born on June 29, 1900 at 8, rue du Peyrat , in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon4, in a family of French nobility3.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry at the Notre-Dame-de-Sainte-Croix school in Le Mans in 1910-1911. Detail of the photograph of the sixth grade class.
He shared a happy childhood with his four brothers and sisters. But in 1904, his father died, struck down by a cerebral hemorrhage at only forty-one years old, at La Foux station. Marie de Saint-Exupéry raised her five children: Marie-Madeleine, known as Biche, Simone, known as Monot, Antoine, known as Tonio, François and Gabrielle, known as Didi. She is helped by the Austrian governess Paula Hentschel (1883-1965), who will stay with them until they become adults. In his novel War Pilot, the author paid tribute to him in these terms: “I went back in my memory to childhood, to rediscover the feeling of sovereign protection. There is no protection for men. Once you're a man, you're let go... But who can do anything against the little boy whose hand an all-powerful Paula has tightly locked? Paula, I used your shadow as a shield…”5.
Antoine's mother takes this premature widowhood badly, although her optimistic nature allows her to meet her obligations. With a skin-deep sensitivity, an artist (she practices painting6), she forges special bonds with Antoine and offers him an excellent education, something difficult at the time for a single woman. She transmits to her beloved son values that he will maintain throughout his life: honesty, respect for others, without social exclusivity. An exceptional woman, she devoted her life to her children, with a humanism that Saint-Exupéry cultivated throughout his travels[ref. necessary].
Until the age of ten, he spent his childhood between the castle of La Môle in the Var, property of his maternal grandmother, and the castle of Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in Ain, property of his aunt Mme Tricaud.
In 1908, he entered the eighth grade with the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Lyon. At the end of the summer of 1909, Marie de Saint-Exupéry moved with her children to Le Mans, 21, rue du Clos-Margot, near her father-in-law who lived at 39, rue Pierre-Belon7. Antoine entered the Jesuit college Notre-Dame-de-Sainte-Croix on the following October 7. A mediocre student, described as undisciplined and dreamer, he is attracted by elsewhere, the distance, adventure, seeking ever since
This period inspired him to write other poems, in the form of sonnets and series of quatrains (Veillée, 1921), showing that he was going through a difficult period; he then finds himself without a life plan and without a future. Some of his poems are calligraphed and illuminated with Indian ink drawings. He offers two of his poetry notebooks to his friend Jean Doat13. Between the wars, Louise de Vilmorin became one of the pillars of her group of friends, which also included Jean Prévost, Hervé Mille, Aimery Blacque-Belair, Jean de Vogüé and his wife Nelly, Jean Hugo, Léon- Paul Fargue3.
In aviation
Building in Strasbourg where Antoine de Saint-Exupéry lived in 1921.
Commemorative monument in Tarfaya, Aéropostale stopover.
Passage in the Air Force
In April 1921, he began his two-year military service as a mechanic in the 2nd Strasbourg Aviation Regiment. In June, he took civil piloting courses at his own expense14.
On July 9 his instructor, Robert Aéby, let him go for a lap. Alone at the controls of his training plane, he is too high for landing. Re-throwing too abruptly causes the carburetor to backfire. Believing that the engine had caught fire, he did not panic, made a second lap around the runway and landed in style. His instructor validates his training15. Nevertheless, he leaves the memory of a sometimes distracted aviator; the nickname Pique la Lune was soon associated with him, not only because of his trumpet nose but also a certain tendency to withdraw into his inner world16.
Holder of a civil pilot's license, he is admitted to military pilot courses. The Strasbourg air base does not have a flight school. On August 2, 1921, he was assigned to the 37th aviation regiment in Morocco17, in Casablanca, where he obtained his military pilot's license on December 23, 192118.
In January 1922, he was in Istres and was promoted to corporal. Accepted on April 3, 1922 for the reserve officer cadet competition (EOR), he followed training courses in Avord, which he left for the Versailles air base, in the Paris region. He flies to Villacoublay19. On October 10, 1922, he was appointed second lieutenant; then certified as an aviation observer on December 4, 1922.
In his spare time, he makes sketches of his roommates in charcoal pencil and turquoise ink. His drawings are grouped together in his notebook Les Copains.
In October he chose his assignment to the 34th aviation regiment, at Le Bourget. In the spring of 1923, on May 1, he suffered his first plane accident at Le Bourget following an error in evaluation, on an aircraft that he did not master, resulting in a fractured skull. After this serious accident, he was demobilized on June 5, 1923. However, he still plans to join the Air Force, as General Joseph-Édouard Barès encourages him to do so. But the family of Louise de Vilmorin, who became his fiancée, opposed it. A long period of boredom began for him: he found himself in an office as a manufacturing controller at the Comptoir de Tuilerie, a subsidiary of the Société Générale d'Entreprises. In September, the engagement with Louise de Vilmorin broke off, which the latter would later describe, in 1939, as an “engagement for laughs”, in a collection of poems. However, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry remained saddened by it throughout his life20.
In 1924, Saint-Exupéry worked in Allier as well as in Creuse as a representative of the Swiss Saurer factory which manufactured, among other things, trucks (he only sold one in a year and a half). He gets tired and resigns. The same year, he began a work in prose, Manon, danseuse. In 1925, his poem entitled The Moon shows a eccentric inspiration21; the poetic suite L'Adieu was written the same year:
“It’s midnight — I’m taking a walk
And I hesitate scandalized
What is this pale chimpanzee
Who is dancing in this fountain? »
Pilot at Aéropostale
In 1926, he was hired by Didier Daurat, director of line operations for the Latécoère company (future Aéropostale), on the recommendations of Beppo di Massimi, and joined Toulouse-Montaudran airport to transport mail on flights between Toulouse and Dakar. He then wrote a short story, “The escape of Jacques Bernis”, from which “L'Aviateur” was taken, a text published in Adrienne Monnier's review, Le Navire d'argent (April 1926 issue), where his friend Jean Prévost. In Toulouse, he met Jean Mermoz and Henri Guillaumet. After two months, he was tasked with his first mail delivery to Alicante.
Consuelo de Saint-Exupery.
At the end of 1927, he was appointed station manager at Cap Juby in Morocco with the mission of improving the company's relations with Moorish dissidents on the one hand and with the Spanish on the other. There he will discover the burning solitude and magic of the desert. In 1929, he published his first novel, Courrier sud, with Gallimard, in which he recounts
In aviation
Building in Strasbourg where Antoine de Saint-Exupéry lived in 1921.
Commemorative monument in Tarfaya, Aéropostale stopover.
Passage in the Air Force
In April 1921, he began his two-year military service as a mechanic in the 2nd Strasbourg Aviation Regiment. In June, he took civil piloting courses at his own expense14.
On July 9 his instructor, Robert Aéby, let him go for a lap. Alone at the controls of his training plane, he is too high for landing. Re-throwing too abruptly causes the carburetor to backfire. Believing that the engine had caught fire, he did not panic, made a second lap around the runway and landed in style. His instructor validates his training15. Nevertheless, he leaves the memory of a sometimes distracted aviator; the nickname Pique la Lune was soon associated with him, not only because of his trumpet nose but also a certain tendency to withdraw into his inner world16.
Holder of a civil pilot's license, he is admitted to military pilot courses. The Strasbourg air base does not have a flight school. On August 2, 1921, he was assigned to the 37th aviation regiment in Morocco17, in Casablanca, where he obtained his military pilot's license on December 23, 192118.
In January 1922, he was in Istres and was promoted to corporal. Accepted on April 3, 1922 for the reserve officer cadet competition (EOR), he followed training courses in Avord, which he left for the Versailles air base, in the Paris region. He flies to Villacoublay19. On October 10, 1922, he was appointed second lieutenant; then certified as an aviation observer on December 4, 1922.
In his spare time, he makes sketches of his roommates in charcoal pencil and turquoise ink. His drawings are grouped together in his notebook Les Copains.
In October he chose his assignment to the 34th aviation regiment, at Le Bourget. In the spring of 1923, on May 1, he suffered his first plane accident at Le Bourget following an error in evaluation, on an aircraft that he did not master, resulting in a fractured skull. After this serious accident, he was demobilized on June 5, 1923. However, he still plans to join the Air Force, as General Joseph-Édouard Barès encourages him to do so. But the family of Louise de Vilmorin, who became his fiancée, opposed it. A long period of boredom began for him: he found himself in an office as a manufacturing controller at the Comptoir de Tuilerie, a subsidiary of the Société Générale d'Entreprises. In September, the engagement with Louise de Vilmorin broke off, which the latter would later describe, in 1939, as an “engagement for laughs”, in a collection of poems. However, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry remained saddened by it throughout his life20.
In 1924, Saint-Exupéry worked in Allier as well as in Creuse as a representative of the Swiss Saurer factory which manufactured, among other things, trucks (he only sold one in a year and a half). He gets tired and resigns. The same year, he began a work in prose, Manon, danseuse. In 1925, his poem entitled The Moon shows a eccentric inspiration21; the poetic suite L'Adieu was written the same year:
“It’s midnight — I’m taking a walk
And I hesitate scandalized
What is this pale chimpanzee
Who is dancing in this fountain? »
Pilot at Aéropostale
In 1926, he was hired by Didier Daurat, director of line operations for the Latécoère company (future Aéropostale), on the recommendations of Beppo di Massimi, and joined Toulouse-Montaudran airport to transport mail on flights between Toulouse and Dakar. He then wrote a short story, “The escape of Jacques Bernis”, from which “L'Aviateur” was taken, a text published in Adrienne Monnier's review, Le Navire d'argent (April 1926 issue), where his friend Jean Prévost. In Toulouse, he met Jean Mermoz and Henri Guillaumet. After two months, he was tasked with his first mail delivery to Alicante.
Consuelo de Saint-Exupery.
At the end of 1927, he was appointed station manager at Cap Juby in Morocco with the mission of improving the company's relations with Moorish dissidents on the one hand and with the Spanish on the other. There he will discover the burning solitude and magic of the desert. In 1929, he published his first novel, Courrier sud, with Gallimard, in which he recounts
Works
If they are not entirely autobiographical, his works are largely inspired by his life as an airmail pilot, including for The Little Prince (1943) — his most popular success (it has since sold more than 134 million copies). copies in the world61, which places it in fifth position among the best-selling books in the world62) — which is rather a poetic and philosophical tale.
Works published during his lifetime
The Aviator: Published in 1926. The first published text by Saint-Exupéry, a fragment it seems of a larger whole, and which will serve as material for Courrier sud.
Southern Mail: Published in 1929. Through the person
If they are not entirely autobiographical, his works are largely inspired by his life as an airmail pilot, including for The Little Prince (1943) — his most popular success (it has since sold more than 134 million copies). copies in the world61, which places it in fifth position among the best-selling books in the world62) — which is rather a poetic and philosophical tale.
Works published during his lifetime
The Aviator: Published in 1926. The first published text by Saint-Exupéry, a fragment it seems of a larger whole, and which will serve as material for Courrier sud.
Southern Mail: Published in 1929. Through the person