Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry ( Spanish Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry ), nee Consuelo Sunsin-Sandoval-Sesenia ( Spanish Consuelo Suncín-Sandoval Zeceña ; April 10, 1901, Armenia , El Salvador - May 28, 1979, Grasse , France ) - El Salvador writer, journalist and artist. The wife of the French writer and pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery , author of the novel "The Little Prince".
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| Date of Birth | April 10, 1901 |
| Place of Birth | Armenia , Salvador |
| Date of death | May 28, 1979 (78 years old) |
| Place of death | Grasse , France |
| Citizenship |  Salvador ,  France |
| Occupation | journalist |
| Genre | articles, memoirs |
| Language of Works | spanish french |
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Biography
Consuelo Sunsin was born in the town of Armenia , in the department of Sonsonate , in El Salvador in a family of wealthy landowners - Colonel Don Felix Sunsin and Donja Ercilia Sandoval-Sesenia. In addition to her, the family had two more daughters: Anna Dolores and Amanda. Consuelo received education abroad - in the USA , Mexico and France.
At 19, she moved to San Francisco , where she received a grant to study English. Here, on May 15, 1922, she first married Mexican Ricardo Cardenas, who worked as a clerk at a paint store. However, the marriage broke up, and some time after the couple began to live separately, Ricardo Cardenas died in an accident on a railway.
Widowed at 22, Consuelo moved to Mexico City , where she began to study law, which she soon changed to journalism. During her stay in France, she married Enrique Gomez Carrillo ( Spanish ) for the second time, a Guatemalan diplomat, writer and journalist. In 1927, eleven months after the wedding, the husband died of a stroke . Widowed a second time, Consuelo inherited a large fortune, including a residence in Buenos Aires . She took citizenship of Argentina .
In 1930, in Buenos Aires, a friend of Benjamin Cremieux introduced her to Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who at that time served as technical director of Aeroposta-Argentina, a branch of Aeropostal . They soon got married. The marriage was concluded in Buenos Aires, but the official ceremony took place in France, where the couple moved for permanent residence.
Despite the fact that Consuelo was constantly worried about the risk associated with the profession of a spouse, his environment and numerous lovers, the marriage did not break up. In 1944, her husband went missing in the sky over the Mediterranean Sea. By that time, he was already the world-famous author of the novel "The Little Prince", in which he portrayed his wife as a rose, a special flower that was protected under a glass dome for protection.
Consuelo died of an asthma attack in Grasse , France, on May 28, 1979. She was buried in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris , next to the remains of her second husband Enrique Gomez-Carrillo. Bequeathed all her property and rights to her gardener Jose Martinez Fructuoso.
Memoirs
In 1946, Consuelo described her life with her third husband. The manuscript Memoirs of a Rose ( French: Mémoires de la rose ) was written in French. It was first published in 1999, after the death of the writer, along with preserved correspondence.
In cinema and literature
In the movie Saint Exupery: A Matter of History , actress Miranda Richardson played Consuelo. Consuelo is also depicted in a story called Three Wishes from Claudia Lars , a childhood friend of her. In Sonsonate, they dreamed of girls who they would be when they grew up, and Consuelo said she would become the queen in a distant land.
Sources
- Official site (English) , (French)
- Website dedicated to Consuelo de Saint Exupery (Spanish)
- Site dedicated to Antoine and Consuelo de Saint-Exupery (Spanish)
- History of Antoine de Saint-Exupery and his wife (Spanish)
- Consuelo de Saint-Exupery or the Rose of the “Little Prince” (Spanish)