Author Archive

Cyrano de Bergerac

Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) was a French writer and libertin thinker whose prose fantasies L’Autre Monde, ou les États et Empires de la Lune and du Soleil use imagined lunar and solar voyages to satirize religion, authority, and received cosmology. His plays, including La Mort d’Agrippine and Le Pédant joué, along with his philosophical letters, reflect skeptical free thought and anticipate later science fiction and Enlightenment critique.

10 summaries in the archive

Biography Lettres – Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano de Bergerac

A collection of seventeenth-century love letters by Cyrano de Bergerac, recovered from a single manuscript and printed with…

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Classic Literature Lettres d’amour – Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano de Bergerac

These attributed love letters reveal Cyrano de Bergerac as a virtuoso of wit rather than a sincere correspondent.

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Classic Literature Letters – Theater (Lettres – théâtre) – Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac's letters and plays showcase his baroque wit, satire, and philosophical imagination in one collection.

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Classic Literature The Death of Agrippina (La mort d’Agrippine) – Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano de Bergerac

A five-act verse tragedy on Agrippina the Elder's fatal clash with Tiberius's court.

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Classic Literature The agreement – Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano de Bergerac

A composite English satire pairing Cyrano de Bergerac's dream letter with an annexed comic 'truth' signed by a…

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Classic Literature Lettres d’amour et Lettres satiriques – Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano de Bergerac

A French collection pairing Cyrano de Bergerac's amorous correspondence with his satirical letters, contrasting tenderness and wit.

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Art Carelman – Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano de Bergerac

A 1965 Paris gallery catalogue illustrating Jacques Carelman's mechanical visions inspired by Cyrano de Bergerac's imaginary voyages.

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Classic Literature The Pedant Tricked (Le Pédant joué) – Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano de Bergerac

A libertine stage comedy by Cyrano de Bergerac that satirizes learned pretension and settles accounts with his former…

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Classic Literature Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon (The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon) – Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano de Bergerac

A satirical lunar voyage in which Cyrano de Bergerac argues the Moon is inhabited and skewers European religion,…

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Classic Literature Comical History of the States and Empires of the Sun (Les États et Empires du Soleil) – Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac's unfinished sequel to his lunar voyage sends Dyrcona to a Sun inhabited by rational birds…

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Other Works by Cyrano de Bergerac

Le ministre d'estate flambé. Ridendo dicere verum quid vetat? (1649)