BERGERAC, SAVINIEN CYRANO DE

BERGERAC, SAVINIEN CYRANO DE
   an eccentric man with comic power, a Gascon by birth; wrote a tragedy and a comedy; his best work a fiction entitled "Histoire Comique des États et Empires de la Lune et du Soleil"; fought no end of duels in vindication, it is said, of his preposterously large nose (1619-1655).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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