“I cry with emotion, I am so afraid of being exiled from your heart,” she responds. “Consuelo my dear, you do not understand how much you make me suffer,” he writes at one point. Unsurprisingly for a marriage between a moody, philandering adventurer and an intensely spirited and sharp-tongued artist, it was tempestuous. Now, more than 160 of their letters and telegrams are being published in France, adorned with dozens of their sketches, photographs and other mementoes. Saint-Exupery’s real-life rose was Consuelo Suncin, a Salvadoran artist who cut a swathe through high society in Latin America and beyond before marrying him in 1930. Much of the story hinges around the mysterious star-travelling prince’s relationship with a rose – delicate and demanding – that he has been tending on his home planet.
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