Men of letters or philosophers, they devoted themselves to the life of the mind and nothing predisposed them to fight. Yet they chose to take up arms to defend their country or a cause. The experience of danger, combat and the proximity of death will mark them deeply. And nourish their theatrical, romantic or conceptual works.
He did not sleep at the camp.
Eighty years later, families in Bastia still tell the secrets of that last night of love.
The great-aunt is no more, but yesterday, even stooped and wrinkled, she remained, for those who kept the secret, the one who bathed in the waves with Saint-Exupéry.
Truth?
Legend?
This is now due to something that pleased the author of The
Little Prince
: custom.
It was July 30, 1944. For two weeks, the pilot has opposed the light of Cap Corse to his interior night.
Despite the sadness that grips him, this contemplative tastes the tender colors of the painting.
Sea blue, pink and white…
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