Hey, Big Nose! Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac was an actual historical figure, a playwright, poet, and duelist with a prominent nose. He is perhaps most famous for his work of science fiction, The Other World: The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon. Like the fictional Cyrano, he fought at the siege of Arras during the Thirty Years' War, but when he was a very young man, not middle aged as in the play by Edmond Rostand. Also, he died at the age of 36, not in old age.

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