Savinien cyrano de bergerac biographie courte

French novelist and dramatist (–)

This article is about the French dramatist. For the play by Edmond Rostand, see Cyrano de Bergerac (play). For other works with this title, see Cyrano de Bergerac (disambiguation).

Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (SIRR-ə-noh də BUR-zhə-rak, – BAIR-, French:[savinjɛ̃d(ə)siʁanod(ə)bɛʁʒəʁak]; 6^{[note 1]} March &#;– 28 July ) 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.

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Today, he is best known as the inspiration for Edmond Rostand's most noted drama, Cyrano de Bergerac (), which, although it includes elements of his life, also contains invention and myth.

Since the s, there has been a resurgence in the study of Cyrano, demonstrated in the abundance of theses, essays, articles and biographies published in France and elsewhere.

Life

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