Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

'Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry (née Consuelo Suncin Sandoval Zeceña of Gómez; born:April 10,1911-1979 ) was the wife of famous writer and aviator Antoine de Saint Exupéry, author of the The Little Prince, although she was an accomplished writer and artist in her own right.

Born in a small village in El Salvador to wealthy landowners, she studied abroad in San Francisco, in Mexico City, and in France. While in France, she met and later married Enrique Gomez Carillo an Argentine diplomat and journalist.Following his death in 1927, she moved and took up residence in Buenos Aires.

In 1931, she met and married the novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and moved with him back to France. 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, she wrote a memoirs of their life together called The Tale of the Rose. She never published the memoirs as she sealed them away in a trunk in her home. She died in France in 1979 and is buried in the Pere Lachaise cemetary in Paris. The Tale of the Rose along with her various paintings and writings was found and published in 1999 and became a major bestseller in France.

Their relationship was portrayed by Bruno Ganz and Miranda Richardson in the movie Saint-Ex: The Story Teller.

The Little Prince

Despite their tumultous union, Antoine Saint Exupéry had kept her close to her heart as she is a character in The Little Prince as his "flower" the "rose" on his planet that he protects under a glass cover.