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Cyrano de Bergerac
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Native name
Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac
Born Savinien de Cyrano
(1619-03-06)6 March 1619
Paris, France
Died 28 July 1655(1655-07-28) (aged 36)
Sannois, France
Occupation Novelist, playwright, duelist
Language French
Nationality French
Period 1653–1662
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Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac ( sirr-Ə-noh-_-də-_-bur 6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian and duelist. He is best known as the inspiration for Edmond Rostand's most well known drama Cyrano de Bergerac (1897).

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  • Nicolas Delamare-Traité de la police, 1729, lII

    Savinien I de Cirano, fish merchant

  • Abraham Bosse, Le maître d'école

    Abraham Bosse (1602–1676), Le Maître d'école.

  • Détail du plan de Gomboust, 1652

    Jacques Gomboust, Plan de Paris 1652 (detail). Upper Rue Saint-Jacques and the collège de Lisieux.

  • Da Sousy

    D'Assoucy around 1630

  • Cyrano de Bergerac (statue)

    Statue in Bergerac, Dordogne (Place de la Myrpe)

  • Benoît-Constant Coquelin dressed as Cyrano de Bergerac

    Actor Benoît-Constant Coquelin as Cyrano de Bergerac.

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