Fisherman Nets Silver Link in Author’s Death
Jean-Claude Bianco was fishing in a rocky inlet for sole and mullet when he netted a bracelet that could solve one of France’s biggest aviation mysteries: the crash that killed author Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
“I told myself, ‘You’re dreaming, you’re dreaming.’ The sea is vast, and the bracelet was so small,” Bianco said of the moment he scraped at the silver chain bracelet late last month to find the names of the author’s wife and publishers.
“This discovery makes me think that the plane isn’t very far away,” Henri-Germain Delauze, head of a salvage crew, told a news conference Wednesday.
Saint-Exupery, 44, the author of “The Little Prince,” vanished in his warplane July 31, 1944. He was flying on a mission against the Nazis.
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