SAINT-EXUPERY Antoine de (1900-1944).

SAINT-EXUPERY Antoine de (1900-1944).
Autograph MANUSCRIT for Terre des hommes, [1931]; 1 page and a quarter in-4 on yellow paper.
Heavily crossed-out and corrected draft for a chapter of Terre des hommes.
This draft is a primitive, heavily worked version, with reworkings, of the conclusion to the first part of chapter VIII, Les Hommes.
"Throughout this book, I have spoken of those who seem to have obeyed a sovereign vocation, and who have chosen the desert or the line, as others would have chosen the monastery, but I have betrayed my purpose if I have seemed to urge you to admire men first"... Etc.