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This article describes the weckage of an airplane crash that killed Antoine Saint-Exupery in WW II. Saint-Exculpery was the author of the most successful children's book, "The Little Prince." He had a broken engagement with Louise de Vilmorin, an author whose two books with calligrams are held by th Sackner Archive. She was described as enchantingly irresistible by biographers but Evelyn Waugh called her "an egocentric maniac with the eyes of a witch." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book includes a novel and eight calligrams in the style of Apollinaire printed on stiff colored paper stock, some of which appeared in "L'Alphabet des Aveux." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Jean Hugo illustrated this book that was also published in 49 copies on velin paper. The book includes seven calligrams in a style reminiscent of Apollinaire's poems.Wikipedia: Marie Louise Leveque de Vilmorin (4 April 1902 -- 26 December 1969) was a French novelist, poet and journalist.Born in the family chateau at Verrieres-le-Buisson, Essonne, a suburb southwest of Paris, she was heir to a great French seed company fortune, that of Vilmorin. She was afflicted with a slight limp that became a personal trademark. Vilmorin was best known as a writer of delicate but mordant tales, often set in aristocratic or artistic milieu. Her most famous novel was Madame de..., published in 1951, which was adapted into the celebrated film The Earrings of Madame de... (1953), directed by Max Ophuls and starring Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux and Vittorio de Sica. Vilmorin's other works included Juliette, La lettre dans un taxi, Les belles amours, Saintes-Unefois, and Intimites. Her letters to...