Under the influence of Gassendi’s scientific theories and libertine philosophy, Cyrano wrote his tw Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, French satirist, and dramatist whose works combining political satire and science-fantasy inspired a number of later writers. But he gave up his military career in the following year to study under the philosopher and mathematician Pierre Gassendi. As a young man, Cyrano joined the company of guards and was wounded at the Siege of Arras in 1640.
He has been the basis of many romantic but unhistorical legends, of which the best known is Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), in which he is portrayed as a gallant and brilliant but shy and ugly lover, possessed (as in fact he was) of a remarkably large nose. Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, French satirist, and dramatist whose works combining political satire and science-fantasy inspired a number of later writers.
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