Le Bret takes him aside and chastises him for his behavior, but Cyrano responds haughtily. They are followed by a huge crowd, including de Guiche and his entourage, but Cyrano soon drives them away. This he agrees to do.Īfter she leaves, Cyrano's captain arrives with the cadets to congratulate him on his victory from the night before. Roxane fears for Christian's safety in the predominantly Gascon company of Cadets, so she asks Cyrano to befriend and protect him. Cyrano thinks that she is talking about him at first, and is ecstatic, but Roxane describes her beloved as "handsome," and tells him that she is in love with Christian de Neuvillette. Roxane and Cyrano talk privately as she bandages his hand (injured from the fracas at the Port de Nesle) she thanks him for defeating Valvert at the theater, and talks about a man with whom she has fallen in love. Cyrano composes a letter to Roxane expressing his deep and unconditional love for her, warns Lise about her indiscretion with the musketeer, and when Roxane arrives he signals Ragueneau to leave them alone. He is followed by a musketeer, a paramour of Ragueneau's domineering wife Lise, then the regular gathering of impoverished poets who take advantage of Ragueneau's hospitality. Cyrano arrives, anxious about his meeting with Roxane. The next morning, at Ragueneau's bake shop, Ragueneau supervises various apprentice cooks in their preparations. Cyrano, now emboldened, vows to take on the entire mob single-handed, and he leads a procession of officers, actors and musicians to the Porte de Nesle. Lignière is then brought to Cyrano, having learned that one hundred hired thugs are waiting to ambush him on his way home. Roxane's duenna then arrives, and asks where Roxane may meet Cyrano privately. The crowd is going to disperse when Cyrano lashes out at a pesky busybody, then is confronted by Valvert and duels with him while composing a ballade, wounding (and possibly killing) him as he ends the refrain (as promised, he ends each refrain with Qu'à la fin de l'envoi, je touche!: "Then, as I end the refrain, thrust home!") When the crowd has cleared the theater, Cyrano and Le Bret remain behind, and Cyrano confesses his love for Roxane. Cyrano disrupts the play, forces Montfleury off stage, and compensates the manager for the loss of admission fees. The play "Clorise" begins with Montfleury's entrance. After Lignière leaves, Christian intercepts a pickpocket and, in return for his freedom, the pickpocket tells Christian of a plot against Lignière. Meanwhile, Ragueneau and Le Bret are expecting Cyrano de Bergerac, who has banished the actor Montfleury from the stage for a month. Lignière recognizes her as Roxane, and he tells Christian about her and the Count de Guiche's scheme to marry her off to the compliant Viscount Valvert. Christian de Neuvillette, a handsome new cadet, arrives with Lignière, a drunkard who he hopes will identify the young woman with whom he has fallen in love. Members of the audience slowly arrive, representing a cross-section of Parisian society from pickpockets to nobility. The play opens in Paris, 1640, in the theatre of the Hôtel de Bourgogne. This doubt prevents him from expressing his love for his distant cousin, the beautiful and intellectual Roxane, as he believes that his ugliness would prevent him the "dream of being loved by even an ugly woman."Īct I – A Performance at the Hôtel de Bourgogne However, he has an obnoxiously large nose, which causes him to doubt himself. In addition to being a remarkable duelist, he is a gifted, joyful poet and is also a musical artist. Hercule Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, a cadet (nobleman serving as a soldier) in the French Army, is a brash, strong-willed man of many talents. 1.1 Act I – A Performance at the Hôtel de Bourgogne.The two most famous English translations are those by Brian Hooker and Anthony Burgess. Cyrano (the character) is in fact famed for his panache, and he himself makes reference to "my panache" in the play. The play has been translated and performed many times, and it is responsible for introducing the word " panache" into the English language. It is also meticulously researched, down to the names of the members of the Académie française and the dames précieuses glimpsed before the performance in the first scene. The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of twelve syllables per line, very close to the classical alexandrine form, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura. There was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, and the play is a fictionalisation following the broad outlines of his life. Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand.
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