On April 6, 1946, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry published "The Little Prince" and seventy years later, the book became one of the most powerful editorial phenomena in the world, and should soon be translated into "Mapuche" "*.

While his messages remain astonishingly topical (force of questioning, refusal of injustice, acceptance of others, respect for nature, marvel at the beauty of the world), the work takes on a new dimension every time that we read it. The aviator, the rose, the king, the businessman, the desert flower, the geographer ... Each character refers to one of us, or to a period of our lives.

Back on this poetic tale ... in figures!

• Since the publication in 1946, 150 million copies of the Little Prince have been sold worldwide and 14 million of them in France.

• Each year, more than 2 million copies of the book are sold worldwide (Gallimard version).

• The adaptation by Joann Sfar has sold 500,000 copies in 24 languages.

• The tale is the most translated story in the world with 288 translations listed (and soon a new one in Mapuche, the South American dialect still spoken in some villages).

• According to official figures, the Little Prince would count 400 million readers.

• In 2014, 90% of the French declared that the Little Prince was their favorite book.

• The adaptations no longer end in the world: more than 300 derivative works, 5 films, 4 operas, 4 ballets, 4 cartoons.

• In 2015, more than 20 million spectators went to the cinema to watch the movie "The Little Prince".

* Dialect spoken in certain territories of Chile and Argentina and considered as "severely threatened with extinction".