So well known it’s often overlooked, The Little Prince is anything but simple.

Beneath its childlike surface lives a layered, luminous work – part fable, part spiritual cartography, part wartime reckoning. Its author, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, aviator, exile, and poet of the invisible, remains a figure uncannily at home in every era – including ours. In an age of noise, speed, and crisis, how do we stay faithful to what matters: beauty, truth, and the sacred?

This is not a lecture. It’s a conversation.We’ll revisit some of the book’s most enduring moments – the rose, the fox, the king – and ask what they reveal about the world we live in now. What does it mean to tend to something fragile? To meet power when it is hollow? To choose care over cleverness?

Grégory Brun, vintner, engineer and director of the Monterey Friends of CG Jung is the founder of Ashland Symposia. He grew up in Toulouse, France, cradle of l’Aéropostale, where Saint-Exupéry first flew mail across oceans. He’ll guide an evening of readings and reflections, inviting us to see The Little Prince anew – as a story still speaking to how we find our way.