Recently, a card has been discovered confirming that Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of "The Little Prince", was a reporter in the Spanish Civil War. Specifically, it was accredited as journalist in 1937 with the aim of covering disputes between nationals and republicans.
The fortunate Researcher who has come across such a document has been polycarp sanchez. He himself investigated the General Archive of the Spanish Civil War, located in Salamanca, finding this special document, which was not found before because "His press pass was not identified until now because it was not stored in the same box as that of other great personalities who came to Spain in those years, such as the writer Ernest Hemingway or the photographers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro", as María José Turrión, deputy director of the archive, later explained.
All reporters working on the Republican field had to register as such in said delegation. Once the war was over, all the republican documents were sent to Salamanca. «It is not so rare that the Saint-Exupéry card appears elsewhere because it is all very fragmented and there are no complete series. We had the main box identified with the passes of writers and journalists. It is a document that gave them the validity of the Propaganda Ministry to be able to act and move around the front and take photographs and informative pieces ", explained again María José Turrión.
Initially, there was a error in said card, since they mistranslated the French word 'écrivain', Meaning writer and. Here, however, they recorded it as "notary" and aviator. While the war lasted, the French author stayed at the Hotel Florida (in Madrid), along with North American writers such as Hemingway either .
The document will continue to be in the same box where it was found but all the information about it is already uploaded on the Archive's website.