'Little Prince' statue unveiled in New York

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's "The Little Prince" returns to New York as a statue on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue.

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00:00 [Applause]

00:08 I didn't want people to think, "Oh, a sculptor made a work inspired by the Little Prince."

00:23 I wanted people to see the sculpture, and I hope it works, I don't know,

00:26 that people say, "Oh, the Little Prince," and that there is no distance,

00:30 that people say, "Oh, my Little Prince," when they see the work.

00:33 Yes, so the Little Prince was born in 1943 here in New York.

00:51 Saint-Exupéry spent two and a half years between the armistice of 1940 and his return to the war in 1943.

00:59 So he wrote a number of books here, including the Little Prince.

01:05 It wasn't planned at all at the beginning, in fact.

01:08 It was an order from his publisher.

01:11 Finally, he took it into his own hands, and it became a major book and his will.

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