Cyrano de Bergerac
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Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist.
Bergerac illustrated by Zacharie Heince, c. 1654
Statue in Bergerac, Dordogne (Place de la Myrpe)
Actor Benoît-Constant Coquelin as Cyrano de Bergerac.
The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon was the first of three satirical novels written by Cyrano de Bergerac. It was published posthumously in 1657 and, along with its
Cyrano de Bergerac
…of theses, essays, articles and biographies published in France and elsewhere. Cyrano's novels L'Autre Monde: ou les États et Empires de la Lune ("Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon", published posthumously, 1657) and Les États et Empires du Soleil (The States and Empires of the Sun, 1662) are classics of early modern science…
Cyrano uses bottles of dew to float upwards. Illustration from the second volume of an edition of Cyrano de Bergerac's complete works printed in Amsterdam in 1708