Poetic author of classic children's tale 'The Little Prince.'
She left the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he was studying architecture, after 15 months.
She was a commercial air pilot and renowned poet who joined the French Air Force to fight the Nazis and disappeared in 1944.
She married Consuelo Gomez Carillo in 1931.
She was not on the best of terms with Charles de Gaulle before he became president.