Have you ever heard of Cyrano De Bergerac, a written by Edmond Rostand?

[Julie4]

One of my favorite passages is this

I hope I have translated well.

" To dream, to laugh, to pass, to be alone, to be free,
Have an eye that looks well, a voice that vibrates,
Put, when you please, his felt hat askew,
For a yes, for a no, fight or write a verse!

Work without concern for fame or fortune,
To such a trip, of which one thinks, to the moon!

Never write anything that does not come out of itself,
And modest moreover, to say to oneself: my little one,
Be satisfied with flowers, fruits, even leaves

If it is in your own garden that you pick them!
Then, if it happens to triumph a little, by chance,
Not to be obliged to render anything to Caesar,
To oneself keep the merit,
In short, disdaining to be the parasitic ivy,
Even when we are not the oak or the lime tree,
Not to climb very high, perhaps, but all alone! "

[Bluemax]

Yes, I have heard of him though I confess it wasn't until my teens that I learned he was a real person. Although no doubt Rostand fictionalized him, Cyrano was a soldier, duelist, and poet with a big nose. I know he wrote some of the earliest works of science fiction, one of which included a method for getting to the moon which was not entirely off base from how it's actually done today (the protagonist rode a gondola which used gunpowder to propel him).

I loved both Jose Ferrer's and Gerard Depardieu's depiction of him. I will go and see Dinklage's portrayal as well. Steve Martin did a version of Cyrano in the late 80s called Roxanne. Very funny. Janeane Garofalo portrayed the female equivalent of Cyrano in the 90s in a movie called The Truth about Cats & Dogs. I thought it was adorable. Cyrano also is featured as a prominent character in Phillip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series.

And I dressed up as Cyrano for Halloween after the release of the 1990 movie with Depardieu.

I thought the 1990 movie was the best.

P. S. I found it *very* odd that Janeane Garofalo was the "ugly" one and Uma Thurman was Christian, the beautiful one. In my opinion, Garofalo was *way* more attractive than Thurman.

[RolandCuthbert]

Yes. I have to see Peter Dinklage's version!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onu7110rKLc

[SueShe]

Moi, Monsieur, si j'avais un tel nez, il faudrait sur le champ qu'on me l'emputasse...

[Julie4]

Vous avez aimé l'œuvre?

[SueShe]

J'ai beaucoup aimé et j'ai d'ailleurs regardé plusieurs fois le film Cyrano de Bergerac de 1990 avec Gérard Depardieu. A cette époque, il n'était pas encore aussi enveloppé qu'aujourd'hui.

J'utilise l'expression "enveloppé" parce que c'était l'expression qu'Obélix utilisait pour décrire sa corpulence.

[Julie4]

Et avez vous déjà lu les œuvres de Balzac, Hugo , Châteaubriand ( mon auteur préféré ) Alfred de Musset? Et avez vous aimer?

[SueShe]

Balzac oui mais pas de Chateaubriand.

Il y avait une série très intéressante sur France 3 avec Stéphane Bern (Secrets d'Histoire) dont l'une sur Gustave Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Molière et d'autres grands écrivains.

J'ai enregistré presque toutes les émissions de Secrets d'Histoire.

[Julie4]

Oui secret d'histoire est une émission passionnante. Je vous conseille vraiment Chateaubriand ces mémoires d'outre-tombe, ce sont une merveille. Il a été ambassadeur , il a rencontré Edmund Burke , George Washington , et bien sûr Napoléon.

[SueShe]

Je vais voir si je peux dénicher un exemplaire d'un livre de Chateaubriand. Merci pour le coup de pouce.

[Julie4]

De rien 😊 Quels sont vos écrivains anglais préféré? Et en tant qu'anglaise de l ancienne rivalité entre la France et l Angleterre?

[Julie4]

*que pensez-vous

[SueShe]

J'ai trouvé un lien sur le site

www.bouquineux.com/?telecharger=75&Chateaubriand

[Julie4]

fr.m.wikisource.org/.../M%C3%A9moires_d%E2%80%99outre-tombe

[SueShe]

J'aime beaucoup l'écrivain irlandais James Joyce ou le poète Oscar Wilde.

Du côté des écrivans et poètes anglais, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen ou encore William Wordsworth.

[Julie4]

Je connais Oscar Wilde mais pas le pas le premier que vous avez citez. Je sais pas si vous avez vu , dans mon commentaire précédent je vous ai donné un lien qui vous permets de lire Châteaubriand directement en ligne sans télécharger en pdf

[SueShe]

Merci pour le lien. Pour une raison inconnue, je n'arrive pas à ouvrir le lien. Mais ça ne fait rien car avec le bouquin en PDF, je peux le lire sur ma tablette sans être en ligne.

[Julie4]

Super, vous m en direz des nouvelles

[AviatorTom]

That's classic literature. A couple Hollywood movies were made about him, back in the 1940s I think.

[MTC29]

“There comes one moment, once—and God help those Who pass that moment by! when Beauty stands looking into the soul with grave, sweet eyes That sicken at pretty words!”

[Andres77]

That movie was excellent.
I don't know how close it was to the original story but I enjoyed it even as a kid.
Steve Martin did a movie based on this called Roxanne from the late 80's.

[Anonymous]

basically a poor bastard who wishes he had money as much money as caesar and hates the roman government and hates caesar

[Gwenhwyfar]

He guest starred in the Three Musketeers

[Bluemax]

Really? Which version?

[Gwenhwyfar]

@Bluemax a series of novel featuring the Three Musketeers written by two guys named Feval and Lassez

[Iron_Man]

No sorry I haven’t