A Voyage to the Moon

A Voyage to the Moon

La terre me fut importune Le pris mon essort vers les Cieux. l'y vis le soleil, et la lune. Et maintenant J'y vois les Dieux ("All weary with the earth too soon, I took my flight into the skies, Beholding there the sun and moon Where now the Gods confront my eyes.") Savinien Hercule de Cyrano Bergerac, swashbuckler, hero, poet, and philosopher, came of an old and noble family, richer in titles than in estates. His grandfather still kept most of the titles, and was called Savinien de Cyrano Mauvires Bergerac Saint-Laurent. He was secretary to the King in 1571, and held other important offices. Since there was no absolute right of primo-geniture in those matters, the names, as well as what was left of the properties they had represented, were distributed among his descendants. Our hero seems to have received a fair share of the titles; but of the property, nothing. He was the fifth among seven children, and was born on the 6th of March, 1619; not in 1620, as has been usually stated. He was born, moreover, at Paris, not in Gascony; we must, alas, admit that he was not a Gascon. He ought to have been one, he certainly deserved to be one. But Fortune, who seems to have taken pleasure in always making him just miss his destiny, began by doing him this first and greatest wrong of not letting him be born a Gascon. The family was not even of distant Gascon origin, but was Prigourdin; Bergerac itself is a small town near Prigueux. Cyrano, however, did his best to repair this as well as the other wrongs of Destiny; he acquired the Gascon accent, and often made himself pass for a Gascon. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 46547
Author: Cyrano de Bergerac, 1619-1655
Release Date: Aug 10, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Page, Curtis Hidden, 1870-1946

Translator: Lovell, Archibald