Cyrano de Bergerac

Edmond Rostand wrote a highly successful drama about Cyrano de Bergerac in 1897. The original of the dramatic figure, the real Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, dates back to the 17th century. born in the 19th century, friend of Moliere, the classicist ancestor of today's brave, warrior and noble, witty and gallant heroes, a fearless Indiana Jones or a Luc Skywalker with a mysterious fate. Cyrano's most important work of art is his own life, as the romantic poet Rostand felt. Cyrano, while becoming the feared swordsman of the Gascogne Guards, studied philosophy in Paris with Gassendi, the materialist philosopher who created the greatest intellectual waves of the age. Cyrano built a legend around himself, on the one hand, with his duels, his teasing, sometimes tyrannical nature, and on the other hand, with his unreserved adherence to a so-called noble but rather liberal ideology, which considered loyalty to thought, reason, and reason to be the most important human need.