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Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien de

SYLLABICATION:	Cy·ra·no de Ber·ge·rac
PRONUNCIATION:	sîr-n d bûrzh-rk, br-
DATES:	1619–1655
	French satirist and duelist whose works include the spirited drama The Pedant Imitated (1654). He is the subject of Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), which depicts him as a chivalric duelist with a comically long nose.


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