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Saint-Exupéry struggled to find a title for his book; the original working title was: "Etoiles par grand vent" (literally: 'Stars in windy conditions'). He even promised 100 francs to André de
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Moved as he was by a heightened awareness of the solitude of all creation and by the human need for solidarity, Saint-Exupéry found a phrase to express his anguish and his hope that was as simple as it was rich in meaning; and because that phrase was chosen many years later to be the governing idea
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with a list of 30 suggestions, and Saint-Exupéry chose one of them: "Terre des
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took its name from this book in 1959. The charitable international federation of humanitarian societies concentrates on children's rights, and is based in
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