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A Spanish researcher has stumbled across the long-lost press card of French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of the iconic story “The Little Prince”, used when he was covering Spain's 1936-1939 Civil War for French newspaper Paris-Soir, The Straits Times write.

According to the source, the card had been lost for decades because it had been filed away in the wrong box in a huge collection of documents related to the Civil War known as the “Salamanca Archive”, said researcher Policarpo Sanchez.

The archives contain millions of documents belonging to political parties and organisations that opposed the forces of dictator Francisco Franco which were confiscated during the Civil War.

The press card shows that Saint-Exupery stayed at the Hotel Florida in Madrid, which was the base for many famous war correspondents of the time including Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway, and war photographers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro.