dionysus-darling:Get To Know Me | Favorite Historical Figures↳ Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655)“I may

dionysus-darling:Get To Know Me | Favorite Historical Figures↳ Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655)“I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.”Cyrano de Bergerac was a French author and playwright best known for his political satire and science fantasy. Because Cyrano’s short life is poorly documented, and it’s difficult to tell myth and legends from fact. Post-humorously Cyrano was the subject of the Edmond Rostand’s play which depicted him as a chivalric duelist with a comically long nose. In real life de Bergerac was at first a soldier (and like his literary counterpart, an expert swordsman and duellist). Later he became a student of a brilliant philosopher named Pierre Gassendi. One author, Ishbel Addyman, claims that Cyrano had same-sex lovers. One of which was Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy, until around 1653, when the two became engaged in a bitter rivalry. This led to Bergerac sending d'Assoucy death threats that compelled him to leave Paris. The quarrel extended to a series of satirical texts by both men. Bergerac wrote Contre Soucidas (an anagram of his enemy’s name), while D'Assoucy counterattacked with Le Combat de Cyrano de Bergerac avec le singe de Brioché, au bout du Pont-Neuf (The battle of Cyrano de Bergerac with the monkey of Brioché, at the end of the Pont-Neuf). Cyrano may have also had a relationship with Théophile de Viau, a French poet and libertine. Cyrano was a man ahead of his time, his whimsical stories of travel to the moon and the sun made him a forerunner of sci-fi. De Bergerac died after being hit in the head by a falling beam; it’s unclear if the incident was an accident or an assassination attempt. -- source link

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