Cyrano

These are topics that either got cut from the video, or that I couldn’t find a place for, but I still found important enough to want to write down. Cyrano the Pacifist There’s a pretty big difference between the earliest illustrations for Cyrano’s Voyages and the illustrations that were published after the play. There’s a noticeable addition now. Because Cyrano is presently celebrated as a legendary swordsman before he’s celebrated as a pioneer in science fiction, there’s now always a sword at Dyrcona’s hip, despite the fact that Cyrano never describes him having one. ...

It’s a bit of a mess in here, but you’ll find whatever you’re looking for. Books, Papers, Articles Most of the written works I reference can be found on archive.org. I made a list to contain them. I’ll list them here too: The Play The play, in English en Français Cyrano’s works Project Gutenberg’s edition of Voyages to the Moon and the Sun (uncensored version) en Français (censored version) you can listen to Voyage to the Moon for free on LibriVox! Thanks Peter Tucker! ...

Sources for Cyrano de Bergerac The Man The Myth The Legend Things I didn’t mention in the Cyrano video that I wanted to mention somewhere January 2nd, 2025 - I’ve been working on this video off and on for about a year now. It started as “The Man, The Myth, the Legend” which would have started with a quick summary of Cyrano’s life, then go into the play, then talk about everything since. ...