SAVINIEN CYRANO DE BERGERAC

SAVINIEN CYRANO DE BERGERAC (1619-1655), an eccentric man with comic power, a Gascon by birth; wrote a tragedy and a comedy; his best work a fiction entitled "Histoire Comique des États et Empires de la Lune et du Soleil"; fought no end of duels in vindication, it is said, of his preposterously large nose.