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.
Libertine
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A libertine is a person questioning and challenging most moral principles, such as responsibility or sexual restraints, and will often declare these traits as unnecessary, undesirable or evil. A liber
Cyrano de Bergerac
…6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist. A bold and innovative author, his work was part of the libertine literature of the first half of the 17th century. Today, he is best known as the inspiration for Edmond Rostand's most noted drama, Cyrano de Bergerac…
The 2nd Earl of Rochester, a notorious English libertine
Marquis de Sade by Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo