Consuelo de Saint Exupéry (born Armenia, El Salvador, April 10, 1901—died Grasse, France, May 28, 1979) was a Salvadoran-French writer and artist, and wife of the famous writer and aviator Antoine de Saint Exupéry.
Born Consuelo Suncín Sandoval Zeceña in a small town in El Salvador to a family of wealthy landowners, she studied abroad in San Francisco, in Mexico City, and in France. While in France, she met and later married Enrique Gómez Carrill...
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Consuelo de Saint Exupéry (born Armenia, El Salvador, April 10, 1901—died Grasse, France, May 28, 1979) was a Salvadoran-French writer and artist, and wife of the famous writer and aviator Antoine de Saint Exupéry.
Born Consuelo Suncín Sandoval Zeceña in a small town in El Salvador to a family of wealthy landowners, she studied abroad in San Francisco, in Mexico City, and in France. While in France, she met and later married Enrique Gómez Carrillo, a Guatemalan diplomat and journalist. Following his death in 1927, she took up residence in Buenos Aires.
In 1931, she met and married Saint Exupéry and moved back to France with him. Their marriage was a turbulent one, as he was constantly away on flying missions and adventures and had numerous extramarital affairs.
Following the disappearance of her husband in 1944, with the pain of her loss still fresh in her heart, she wrote a memoir of their life together called The Tale of the Rose, which she sealed away in a trunk in her home. Two...
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