Paris, March 2nd 2022 — #BINUSINPARIS continues to the exhibition The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. 

MAD dedicates the exhibition to the literary masterpiece The Little Prince and is open from February 17th to June 26th. Entitled À la rencontre du petit prince (An Encounter with the Petit Prince), it exhibits more than 600 hundreds works of the many facets of Antoine as a fervent humanist, aviator, poet, and an acclaimed writer. The exhibition showcases the original manuscript of The Little Prince. 

“The Little Prince is not the fairy-tale that Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wanted to tell. Written between 1941 and 1943 in New York, when the Second World War was raging, is it even a book for children?” stated in the brochure. 

A bit of a background, Antoine wrote the book by drawing on the eternal years of childhood made up of simple joys and imagination. “The work is a manifestation of the wonder of the world seen through the eyes of a child”. It is believed that in the story he draws a porous line between childhood and adulthood. The book itself has sold two hundred million copies over the past 75 years in almost 500 languages and dialects. The global phenomenon is also seen abound in the adaptations of the work in musical, theatrical, and audiovisual. 

À la rencontre du petit prince looks back at the genesis of the book and is spread to eight rooms with its each storyline. 

Room 1 – “I come from my childhood” 

 

Room 2 – “People shouldn’t write fairy tales, I will write a story about airplanes” 

 

Room 3 – “So I lived my life alone, without anyone that I could really talk to, until I had an accident with my plane in the desert of Sahara, six years ago”  (sortiraparis.com)

 

Room 4 – “One drawing does along all right, and another has no resemblance to its subject” 

 

Room 5 a – “Thus I shall not divorce myself from a defeat which surely will often humiliate me” 

 

Room 5 b – “Everyone knows that fairy tales are the only true thing in life” 

 

Room 6 – The Manuscript 

 

Room 7 – “A skeptical little prince can no longer be a Little Prince” 

 

Room 8 – The little prince around the world