A Spanish found the card that credited as a reporter writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery during the Spanish Civil War, when he was sent special of French newspapers, confirmed Tuesday the archives documenting the war .
the license of the author of “the Little Prince” remained disappeared, without having been classified along with other accreditations of the time, as granted to German photojournalist Gerda Taro, companion of Robert Capa, he explained AFP Maria Jose Turrión, Deputy director of the General Archive of the Spanish Civil War, located in Salamanca (east).
the document French aviator, dated from April 16, 1937, was granted by the Ministry of propaganda of the Republic, to whom should register journalists working in Republican territory.
with 36 years at the time, Antoine de Saint-Exupery that appears to have filled the same sheet, is presented as an aviator and “scribe”, probably a mistranslation of the French “écrivain” (writer).
the record “has an extraordinary value. Your card gives the exact details of his presence in Madrid, “said Policarpo Sánchez, a lawyer and amateur historian of 52 who found the document on June 30.
After searching fruitlessly the card between documents journalists who covered the Civil War (1936-1939), found by chance “documents within a small village in the province of Toledo,” he said.
in Madrid, Antoine de Saint- Exupéry gave an address hotel Florida, known for hosting other war correspondents as the American writer Ernest Hemingway or Hungarian photojournalist Endre Friedmann, better known as Robert Capa.
the Spanish Civil war which faced Republican regime and the nationalists led by Francisco Franco, was one of the first conflicts covered by media worldwide, especially with feathers sympathetic intellectuals of the Republican cause.
Antoine Saint-Exupery reported in 1936 from Barcelona (northeast) for Intransigeant, and a year later for Paris-Soir, from the Spanish capital.
the writer disappeared at sea aboard his plane in 1944
(AFP).
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