For Anna

For Anna K. Chiti

Anna's Collection

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince

website & exhibition

A collection of Exupéry/Prince resources

from the alumni of pensionnaire Exupéry’s lycée

Villa St. Jean - Collège Français & Int'l School

in Fribourg, Switzerland

Esteemed Lady Anna,

On Friday (10/5/18) morning I looked in on my secondary school’s Facebook site “Villa St. Jean - Collège Français & Int'l School” (setup by administrators as a members-only “Closed Group...115 Members...For alumni and friends of Villa St. Jean International School in Fribourg, Switzerland [screenshot])”, to find a post from classmate Erik Bjertnes about your Exupéry/Little Prince collection in Geneva (screenshot) with a link to your site Anna’s Collection, which I thoroughly enjoyed exploring & learning much new information from, especially your photo of the Villa’s last remaining still-standing building, named Gallia, which served as our (& Exupéry’s) classrooms & labs, as well as a basement gym which doubled as a music practice & recording studio for, among others, a ‘60’s rock band I was a member of (on keyboards) called The Sufferin’ Kind, which played for our on-campus Villa ‘67 Graduation Ball, as captured on video camera by my dad, opening with scenes of Fribourg ‘67 & me goofing off, further showing some of the other then-still-standing Villa campus buildings, with alumni milling about on graduation day as they might have in Exupéry’s day (Villa 1904 founding, original entire campus aerial view labelled buildings photo & engraving) including views of the dorm “Bossuet” where graduating seniors like Exupéry & ourselves resided, as shot in silent 8 millimeter warm & fuzzy color video.

Alma mater Exupéry’s presence & impact leaves an indelible impression on us alumni, his Little Prince’s “secret…it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye” offering our lives a guiding spiritual axis. Keeping Exupéry’s & the Prince’s spirit alive & well through continual posts on them via the Facebook site, with some of the longer posts handled by an “overflow” bare-bones Google Sites website named “FB VSJ Post Supplemental”, are a collection of the most salient content I’ve cobbled together to share with you below - if there’s anything new or you’ld like to use, please feel free to help yourself to anything following:

● Villa 1915-1916 Yearbook photo(s) of St.Ex: Exupéry arrived at the Villa in 1915 (passing baccalaureate exam in 1917). Alumnus Ralf Brooks maintains a Villa website offering scanned yearbooks going back to 1903. On his web menu “SECTION SELECT” > item webpage “1903-1961 VSJ Collège Français Yearbooks”, the 1ˢᵗ 3 photos are captioned (1) “Villa St Jean: 1914 - 1915”, (2) “Villa St Jean: 1915 - 1916”, (3) “Villa St Jean: 1915 - 1916 Antoine de St-Exupery et Directeur/ Fondateur L'abbe Francois-Joseph Kieffer”, which photo also contains a description that reads “Antoine de St-Exupery à la Villa St-Jean Le Père François-Joseplh Kieffer, premier directeur dès 1903 du collège Marianiste situé en bordure du bois de Pérolles, dirige ici la corvée de neige. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry tient la charrette” (“Antoine de St-Exupery at Villa St-Jean Fr. François-Joseplh Kieffer, first director in 1903 of the Marianist College located on the edge of the wood of Pérolles, directs here the chore of snow. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry holds the cart.) © Archives Marianistes de la Province de France, Paris / Bordeaux”. Additionally, Exupéry’s name is listed in alumnus Serge de Muller’s photo of a philosophy class student roster (zoom-able, for caption), while class photos (1) & (2) may include Exupéry as an underclassman (if you can spot him - the cover photo of the book “Saint-Exupéry en Suisse Fribourg 1915-1917”, by Alain-Jacques Tornare (professional historian, emeritus professor of the University of Friborg & scientific historical archivist for City of Friborg), as well as the photo in the article “Freiburg hat Saint-Exupéry gerettet” may help, otherwise image facial recognition with age regression software may finally crack the case.

● Fribourg Saint-Exupéry Centennial: Villa Facebook group posts & supplementals

Post(s)

Succession Antoine de Saint-Exupéry-D'Agay: “Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and his brother Francois are boarders at the Villa...January 1915 to July 1917...The two brothers live in the building called ’La Sapinière’” > FR/EN

● Facebook Exupéry > Centennial Expo

● Villa website photo: “La Sapinière”

Fribourg Saint-Exupéry Centennial Update:

(1) April 6 Official Opening Event

(2) Collège Sainte-Croix "Pictures at an Exhibition"

(3) Fribourg Tourism Comic “Saint-Exupéry in Fribourg"

(4) Collège Sainte-Croix Saint-Exupéry Exhibition

-Checking in with our Collège Sainte-Croix contacts regards the April 6 Official Opening Event has resulted in the following finds:

● Announcements:

●● Website: Collège Sainte-Croix > News > Vernissage exposition Saint-Exupéry > [FR/EN]

●● “Saint-Exupéry in Fribourg" Poster

●● PDF: “Thursday 6 April 2017...The Municipal Council is pleased to invite you, Thursday, April 6, At 5.30 pm, At the Collège Sainte-Croix...On behalf of the City Council of Friborg…[to the] Official Opening Event and Vernissage Of the Exhibition 'On the steps of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in Friborg'" -- Invitation to the vernissage in PDF > [FR/EN]

● Projects: Website Collège Sainte-Croix > News > [FR/EN] Projets au sujet de Saint-Exupéry/Projects about Saint-Exupery. The website also offers an historical webpage describing the conversion of Villa Saint-Jean to Collège Sainte-Croix & including an embedded album of vintage photos of the original Villa campus [FR/EN]

● Photos: An email from our Collège Sainte-Croix contact, teacher Perritaz Luc, regards event media coverage, reads "Photos of the exhibition 'In the footsteps of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in Friborg'…Pictures of the day April 6 are online on our website...The gallery is protected by a password:…Username: galeriecscfr…Password: narcissus…[note: I was not challenged for this login upon clicking the preceding link - Cliff]…You can use these images to your respective sites (quoting the name of the photographer...) since students have in principle agreed to this…If you want more high resolution images, please contact me. I will be reachable from April 17…Thank you for the interest you have shown in our exhibition…With my warmest greetings…Luc Perritaz, teacher, resource person…luc.perritaz@edufr.ch…Collège Sainte-Croix/Heilig Kreuz Kollegium/Holy Cross College…Rue Antoine de Saint-Exupery 4, 1700 Friborg - Freiburg…T +41 26 305 21 20 , F +41 26 305 21 21, www.cscfr.ch...Directorate of Education, Culture and Sport SCID…STATE OF FRIBORG

●● Note: Though the photos are uncaptioned, serendipitously, event attendee ancien alumni Jean Remy's friend Jean-Baptiste de Weck's description (FR/EN) vividly captures from the expressions of the audience, their sentiments in response to the presentations

● Fribourg Tourism Comic “Saint-Exupéry in Fribourg": "presents Fribourg seen by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, at the beginning of the 20th century…[includes] a beautiful ‘pop-up’ panorama of the old town in 1917”, [in a way like a quasi-"virtual reality time machine", joining St. Ex when he was about our age, making the rounds together on a Fribourg lope-about…(but will we find there Café Renversé?), as described & made available (sample) through their website. Note: No online order facility. I called from US (Tel: 011 41 26 350 11 11), talked to a Miss Emilie Dafflon, was requested to send an email (Email: Info@fribourgtourisme.ch) with order & full contact info, to which they'd reply with attached invoice & note "As soon as we will have received your payment, we will send you the [comic]", which invoice contains the total bill in Swiss Francs CHF & bank routing info that reads...“Our banking reference, CREDIT SUISSE FRIBOURG, Cpt no 0517 – 57746 - 91, CODE CLEARING 517, SWIFT CRE SCH ZZ 17 R, IBAN CH62 0483 5005 7746 9100 0”…which led me to take the invoice to my bank to have them do the currency conversion & transfer, & provide me an email verifying the success of the transaction to email back to Miss Dafflon to confirm they received the payment & the comic was in the mail & on its way - whew!

● Collège Sainte-Croix Saint-Exupéry Exhibition, Fribourg, Switzerland (photos from photographer Luc Perritaz): "Pictures at an Exhibition" (- cue Mussorgsky)

●● Note: the post continues below at “Post Supplemental > Fribourg Saint-Exupéry Centennial > Saint-Exupéry Related Supplemental”

● The Little Prince book shared on Mars in 2033: A classic copy of the The Little Prince book was brought out and shared with the crew by an astronaut who noted the book was read to her by her grandfather "during long blizzard nights", as the crew sat out a many months long, planetary scale Martian dust storm during the Mars 2033 international mission portrayed on the National Geographic series "Mars" season 1 episode 5 "Darkest Days": screen capture, video clip

● The Little Prince Legacy

●● Little Prince Asteroids: For The Little Prince's home world, asteroid B-612, a "real asteroid was named after the fictional asteroid...discovered in 1993 [it] was named 46610 Bésixdouze, which is French for "B six twelve"…Additionally, "An asteroid discovered in 1975 [was named] 2578 Saint-Exupéry...[&] a small asteroid moon...discovered [orbiting asteroid 45 Eugenia] in 1998 [in 2003 was named] Petit-Prince" - wiki Prince > Astronomy

●● Planetary Protection Agency B612 Foundation: "named for the asteroid home of…The Little Prince"- B612 wiki; it was "created to track Near-Earth objects that might pose a threat to Earth - wiki Prince > Astronomy"; & is "dedicated to planetary defense against asteroids…led mainly by scientists… astronauts...engineers from…[Princeton] Institute for Advanced Study...Stanford University, NASA and the space industry" - B612 wiki. Note that on 9/7/16 "A Bus-Size Asteroid Just Gave Earth a Close Shave", for which size asteroid the Purdue Earth Impact Effects Calculator can readily project an 11-26 kiloton TNT airburst, as compared to the Hiroshima bomb's 15 kiloton TNT blast. Sample asteroid flybys: video playlist.

●● Note: the post continues below at “Post Supplemental > Fribourg Saint-Exupéry Centennial > The Little Prince Legacy”

Post Supplemental

Fribourg Saint-Exupéry Centennial:

● Saint-Exupéry Related Supplemental

● The Little Prince Legacy

Other Villa Facebook group Exupéry/Prince posts

Residence

● Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Galería Güemes Buenos Aires Patagonia

Tribute

● Statue (US NY): The Little Prince Statue

● Plaque: Exupery at Pantheon, Paris

● Park: Le Parc du Petit Prince - Amusement and leisure park in Alsace

Souvenir

● Watch: IWC's New Pilot's Watch Marks The 70th Anniversary Of Antoine De Saint-Exupéry's Last Flight

Film

● Antoine de Saint-Exupéry film script made into movie, viewable on Hulu Plus!: While browsing Hulu Plus Criterion Collection movies, I came across this gem – “Anne-Marie” (Aurea Film1936). The byline reads “Raymond Bernard’s film of a script by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince) about a young woman who aspires to become a pilot.”. The full film is available for viewing on both a home theater with a Tivo/Apple TV Hulu Plus account, as well as online at Hulu.

● "Les Ailes Brisées" ("Broken Wings") documentary: BBC France RMC Découverte broadcast series info

●● BBC: description, preview

Animation

● Montblanc anim.gif: Make your own (copy following link & run in a separate stand-alone browser; touch to animate) Little Prince & Friend animation

● VR/Animation: Le Petit Prince 4D from nWave at Futuroscope, BonBon-Land, Isla Mágica

Media

● Album (from alumnus & Fribourg resident Serge de Muller): "Antoine de St-Exupery a la Villa St-Jean 100me annniversaire de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Officiel a la Villa St-Jean”

Article

● Sur les pas de Saint-Exupéry à Fribourg

● For Sale: An Original Illustration of Antoine De Saint-Exupéry's 'Little Prince'

● The Life and Times of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

● The last flight of Saint-Exupéry was 70 years ago

● Exupéry...A Spanish researcher retrieves five unpublished texts by the writer

Café

● “Print pictures of Exupéry/Prince on latte foam with Ripple Maker”