The title character fights a hundred men to save the drunken poet Lignere and foils the plot of a scheming nobleman who plans to have the main female character wedded to Valvert so that he can cheat on Cardinal Richelieu's niece with her.
The title character fights a hundred men to save the drunken poet Lignere and foils the plot of a scheming nobleman who plans to have the main female character wedded to Valvert so that he can cheat on Cardinal Richelieu's niece with her. The author based much of this play on a biography written by Le Bret, and in real life the title character did indeed fight at the battle of Arras, where, in the play, Christian de Neuvillette is killed by the first shot. For 10 points, identify this play based on the life of a seventeenth- century nobleman with a really big nose, by Edmond Rostand.
The title character fights a hundred men to save the drunken poet Lignere and foils the plot of a scheming nobleman who plans to have the main female character wedded to Valvert so that he can cheat on Cardinal Richelieu's niece with her.
{Cyrano de Bergerac}