Hallan reporter credential author of “The Little Prince” during Spanish Civil War – Periodico a.m.

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a Spanish citizen found that identified accreditation as a journalist writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery during the Spanish Civil War , war that covered as special envoy of French newspapers.

the Deputy director General Archive of the Spanish Civil War, Maria Jose Turrión, said the credential of the author of “the Little Prince” remained missing along with other documents of the time.

This accreditation is dated April 16, 1937, and was granted by the Ministry of Propaganda Republican side, to whom should register the reporters covering the conflict in Republican territory.

at thirty-six years old, Antoine Saint-Exupery seems to have filled the document himself, was presented as an aviator and scribe, possibly a mistranslation of the French word “écrivain”.

the lawyer and amateur historian Policarpo Sánchez found the credential on June 30 last , and argues that “has an extraordinary value. It card gives the exact data of its presence in Madrid, “he said.

After fruitlessly searched the document between the roles of journalists who covered the Spanish Civil War, he found by chance “within documents of a small village in the province of Toledo” said.

in the city of Madrid, author of “the Little Prince” gave an address the flagship hotel Florida , where other war correspondents as the American Ernest Hemingway and the Hungarian Robert Capa stayed.

During 1936, Antoine Saint-Exupery reported from the Spanish city of Barcelona , located in Catalonia, for the French daily Instransigeant; a year later, he worked from Madrid to the French newspaper Paris-Soir.

With information from AFP.

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