Cyrano de Bergerac

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Cyrano de Bergerac (Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries)

Early Life

Savinien Cyrano became famous as Cyrano de Bergerac, an appellation he took from the name of an estate near Paris. When Cyrano was born in Paris in 1619, France was entering a turbulent but exciting period. Young Louis XIII was on the throne, and cardinal de Richelieu (Armand-Jean du Plessis) was consolidating his power behind that throne. The great philosophers René Descartes (1596-1650) and Blaise...

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• - For teachers, the Cyrano de Bergerac Lesson Plan.
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