 ?-1625), who, apart from his titles of "King's Counsellor and Secretary", also had that of "King's Interpreter of Foreign Languages".In 1622, Abel de Cyrano left Paris with his family and went to settle on his lands at Mauvières and Bergerac in the "Vallée de Chevreuse", which had come to him in part after the death of his mother in 1616.His possessions, situated on the banks of the Yvette River in the parish of Saint-Forget, had been purchased by Savinien I de Cyrano forty years earlier from Thomas de Fortboys, who had bought them himself in 1576 from Lord Dauphin de Bergerac (or Bergerat), whose ancestors had possessed them for more than a century.