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3 unusual facts about Cyrano de Bergerac


Alexandre Bompard

He holds degrees from two Parisian institutions: the Paris Institute of Political Studies and the National School of Administration (Cyrano de Bergerac class).

Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon

The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon (L’Autre monde ou les états et empires de la Lune) was the first of three satirical novels written by Cyrano de Bergerac, that are considered among the first science fiction stories.

Sisters of Wellber

:He appears to be named after Cyrano de Bergerac, who was a 17th-century French dramatist, and was portrayed in an eponymously named play by Edmond Rostand.


1657 in literature

Cyrano de Bergerac (posthumous) - L'Autre Monde: ou les États et Empires de la Lune ("Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon")

Antoine III de Gramont

As the Comte de Guiche, he is a major character in Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, where he is depicted at first as vain, lustful, and opportunistic.

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

(The yard of the derelict St Nicholas School adjacent to the warehouse was still used by the Company for rehearsals of crowd scenes and stage fights as late as the early 1960s, notably for John Hale's productions of Romeo and Juliet starring the Canadian actor Paul Massie and Annette Crosbie, a former student of the School, and Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac with Peter Wyngarde.

Cadets de Gascogne

The regiment was apparently considered romantic and swashbuckling since it appealed to authors and in particular was used in both Cyrano de Bergerac and the original Three Musketeers by Dumas.

Ian Gallanar

He has directed a number of productions with the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Coriolanus, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lysistrata, The Front Page, As You Like It, Cyrano de Bergerac, Twelfth Night and many others.

Jean Piat

Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (A guard, Bellerose, a musketeer, Cadet, Brissaille, Jodelet, Cyrano

Jean-Charles Darmon

Resident of the Fondation Thiers, he completed his thesis there titled Philosophie épicurienne et littérature au xviie siècle en France : études sur Gassendi, Cyrano de Bergerac, La Fontaine, Saint-Évremond (Epicurean philosophy and literature in seventeenth-century in France: studies on Gassendi, Cyrano de Bergerac, La Fontaine, Saint-Evremond), regarding the heterodox currents of thought of classical France.

Nederlander Theatre

A wide variety of shows have been presented at the venue, including the Mercury Theatre production of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, Noël Coward's Private Lives, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the Tony award winning Rent.

Oliver von Dohnányi

For National Theatre Ostrava a revival of The Bartered Bride and a new production of Alfano´s Cyrano de Bergerac.

Robert C. Schnitzer

While a young actor in New York City, Schnitzer appeared in or helped manage The Brothers Karamazov, Hamlet, An Enemy of the People, Richelieu, Henry V, Richard III, Caponsacchi, Macbeth, and Cyrano de Bergerac.


see also

Michelle Yim

In 1990, she performed in another musical play, Cyrano De Bergerac, a story adapted from French literature.

Peter Copley

In 1946 he appeared on stage in "Cyrano de Bergerac" at the New Theatre in London.