In 1927, Saint-Exupéry accepted the position of airfield chief for Cape Juby in southern Morocco and began writing his first book, a memoir, called Southern Mail, published in 1929. After leaving the service, in 1923, Saint-Exupéry worked in several professions, but in 1926, he went back to flying and signed as a pilot for Aéropostale, a private airline that flew mail from Toulouse, France, to Dakar, Senegal. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the French naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious art school l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
He writes repeatedly of the house at Saint-Maurice. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in eastern France, he kept that ambition. He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 192 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. People best know French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for his fairy tale The Little Prince (1943).
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