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Cyrano de Bergerac

1619 - 1655

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Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac ( SIRR-ə-noh də BUR-zhə-rak, – BAIR-, French: [savinjɛ̃ d(ə) siʁano d(ə) bɛʁʒəʁak]; 6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) 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. Today, he is best known as the inspiration for Edmond Rostand's most noted drama, Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), which, although it includes elements of his life, also contains invention and myth. Since the 1970s, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cyrano de Bergerac is the 147th most popular writer (up from 164th in 2019), the 164th most popular biography from France (up from 194th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular French Writer.

Cyrano de Bergerac is most famous for his nose, which is large and ugly. He is a soldier, poet, and philosopher.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Cyrano de Bergerac ranks 147 out of 7,302. Before him are Boris Pasternak, Dr. Seuss, Yukio Mishima, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Cato the Elder. After him are Vladimir Nabokov, Henry David Thoreau, Diogenes Laërtius, Emily Brontë, Carlo Collodi, and Plautus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1619, Cyrano de Bergerac ranks 1. After him are Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Jan van Riebeeck, Charles Le Brun, Hyojong of Joseon, Barbara Strozzi, Francesco Morosini, Willem Kalf, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Anna Catherine Constance Vasa, Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, and Philips Wouwerman. Among people deceased in 1655, Cyrano de Bergerac ranks 2. Before him is Pope Innocent X. After him are Pierre Gassendi, Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, Eleonora Gonzaga, Margaret of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal, Ukita Hideie, Cristóbal de Morales, Janusz Radziwiłł, Cornelis Schut, Eustache Le Sueur, and Francesco Molin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Cyrano de Bergerac ranks 164 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles V of France (1338), Pope Urban IV (1185), Marcel Duchamp (1887), Pope Leo IX (1002), Georges Pompidou (1911), and Roman Polanski (1933). After him are Godfrey of Bouillon (1060), Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), Pope Martin IV (1220), François Viète (1540), Margaret of Valois (1553), and Thérèse of Lisieux (1873).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Cyrano de Bergerac ranks 32. Before him are André Gide (1869), Sully Prudhomme (1839), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), François Villon (1431), Jean Cocteau (1889), and Paul Verlaine (1844). After him are Jean Racine (1639), Nicolas Flamel (1330), André Breton (1896), Stéphane Mallarmé (1842), Petronius (27), and François-René de Chateaubriand (1768).

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