 In support of this hypothesis, he notes that both had families from Sens, a lawyer father and religious brothers and sisters, that the elder only liked youths and in regard to the women of Montpellier who accused him in 1656 of neglecting them, he wrote that "all of that has no more foundation than their fanciful imagination, already concerned, which had taught them "the long-time habits" [that he] had had with C[hapelle], late D[e] B[ergerac] and late C."

Cyrano's homosexuality was first explicitly hypothesized by Jacques Prévot in 1978.He was the son of Abel de Cyrano, lord of Mauvières and Bergerac, and Espérance Bellanger.He received his first education from a country priest, and had for a fellow pupil his friend and future biographer Henri Lebret.