Wednesday, March 6, 2013

History Trivia - birth of Cyrano de Bergerac

March 6


1340 John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster was born.



1475 Michelangelo Buonarrotti was born.



1619 Cyrano de Bergerac was born. The real Cyrano was a soldier, duelist, dramatist and satirist, and inspired several romantic legends, the most famous of them Edmund Rostand's play.

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