The little Prince

There are suspicions that the book "The Little Prince" was inspired by the passage of Saint Exupery through Argentina.

Concordia Castle:
The Louis XV-style mansion was built with materials brought from various parts of Europe, using only washed stone extracted from the river's coast as an exterior cladding. The T-shaped iron was brought from England, the wood of the floors and cladding, from Germany, the central heating was made with Carrara marble stoves that arrived from Italy along with the refractive material arrived from France, where they also came from crystal chandeliers, furniture, paintings and velvet wall cladding. It also had a gas lighting system that was distributed through pipes, a breakthrough for the time in the area.
Another of the advances was the running water system and also the mobile toilets. The kitchen was 260 meters from the house where the botanical garden is today.
Demachy lives only three years in the house and then together with his wife they decide to return to France, disappearing without leaving explanations on a Sunday in October 1891. They only took their clothes and some belongings, leaving everything of value in the mansion thinking of returning some day.
 
The house remained the property of the French, then it was rented to several families, until it was sold to the Rural Society of Concord, which occupies it for a short time. In 1929 it is acquired by the Municipality of Concordia that rents it to the Fuchs Balloon family.
This French family of exuberant tastes had a great attraction for animals (foxes of the bush, a monkey, mongooses, an iguana and snakes).
One day the daughters of 9 (Edda) and 14 (Susanne) when they rode saw a plane land in a field near the house, was a fearless aviator who landed broke one of the wheels, this aviator was Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , who was not yet a writer and was tracing the air route between Buenos Aires and Asunción when he decided to land to rest.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was caught by the magic that enveloped the place and in 1932 wrote a note in a Paris magazine with the title "The Little Princesses of Argentina". It is inevitable to associate his entrerriana experience with the children's fable that would make him famous "The Little Prince". It also reflects exactly what was experienced in this experience in the "Oasis" chapter of the book "Land of Men", where he says: "He had landed in a field and did not know that he was going to live a fairy tale, it was in a field near Concordia in Argentina".
The pilot would return to that place several times, then the family moved to a stay in 1935.
The house was abandoned and was sacked losing everything of value, ending with a great fire on September 25, 1938.