Cyrano de Bergerac | Act V Summary
Act V: Cyrano's Gazette
The scene shifts to fifteen years later. Roxane has entered a convent and is visited by Cyrano every Saturday. During these visits he informs her of the week's events, giving her a dose of the town's gossip. Le Bret tells the nuns that Cyrano is penniless and lonely due to his caustic attacks ("satires'') on hypocrites of all kinds: "He attacks the false nobles, the false saints/The false heroes, the false artists—in short,/Everyone!" De Guiche, whose passion has been cooled by time, visits Roxane to tell her of a rumor he heard at Court concerning...
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