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  Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano was severely wounded twice, once at a fight with a Gascon Guard, and the second time at the siege of Arras in 1640.
In the 1650s Cyrano de Bergerac published two plays, LA MORT D'AGRIPPINE (1654), which was suspected of blasphemy, and LE PÉDANT JOUÉ (1654), from which Molière borrowed heavily for his play The Cheats of Chapin.
Cyrano is escorted on the Moon by the Demon of Socrates, who says: "If there is something you men cannot understand, you either imagine that it is spiritual or that it does not exists.
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 SAVINIEN CYRANO DE BERGERAC - LoveToKnow Article on SAVINIEN CYRANO DE BERGERAC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
(1620-1655), French romance-writer and dramatist, son of Abel de Cyrano, seigneur de Mauvihres et de Bergerac, was born in Paris on the 6th of March 16I9162o.
At the age of nineteen he entered a corps of the guards, serving in the campaigns of 1639 and 1640, and began the,series of exploits that were to make of him a veritable hero of romance.
Cyrano spent a stormy existence in Paris and was involved in many duels,and in quarrels with the comedian Montfleury, with Scarron arid others.
www.1911ency.org /C/CY/CYRANO_DE_BERGERAC_SAVINIEN.htm   (506 words)

  
 Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The Treaty of Bergerac (1577), between Henry III and the Huguenot princes, was a futile attempt to end the Wars of...
Legends surrounding Cyrano's life and his renown as a duelist also inspired Edmond Rostand's highly romantic play Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), in which the writer is portrayed as a gallant but shy lover who believes...
British airplane designer and manufacturer Geoffrey De Havilland was born in Buckinghamshire on July 27, 1882, and was the uncle of actresses Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland.
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 Cyrano de Bergerac - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Cyrano de Bergerac   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Opera by Franco Alfano (libretto by H Cain, based on Edmond Rostand's play), first produced in Italian translation at the Teatro Reale, Rome, Italy, on 22 January 1936.
Michel Ardan was right when he compared this map to a "Tendre card," got up by a Scudary or a Cyrano de Bergerac.
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