NOUN
- a French soldier and dramatist remembered chiefly for fighting many duels (often over the size of his nose); was immortalized in 1897 in a play by Edmond Rostand (1619-1655)
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- From that album she sang "The Mad Hatter," an uptempo swinger from the short-lived Broadway musical "Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure"; "No Finer Man," a worshipful ballad from "Cyrano de Bergerac: the Musical," which had a brief run two years ago in Tokyo; and the album's title song with lyrics by Maury Yeston. NYT > Home Page
- French actor and winemaker born in Chateauroux, France, Depardieu has been nominated for an Academy Award for his movie, Cyrano de Bergerac and a Golden Globe for Best Actor in the film, Green Card. Five People Born on December 27 | myFiveBest
- Cyrano de Bergerac" is probably my favorite of all non-Shakespearean plays. Archive 2006-01-01
- But, yes: as I say, Voltaire is an unconventional Catholic, like Cyrano de Bergerac; and that fact informs the sorts of fantastic literature they wrote (SF). MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Antithetical to Religion?
- The media went wild, trying to decide if the mark was a wire tap and if Bush had a Cyrano de Bergerac feeding him lines during the debate. Alex Sink and the great debate blunders (Videos)
- Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand's famous play about a swordsman-poet with a gigantic heart and a proboscis to match, has been translated countless times to just about every medium and language known to man.
- There really was a Cyrano de Bergerac, though he did not have the huge nose that is often portrayed in film and in plays. Five People Born on March 6 | myFiveBest
- He was awarded a Cesar -- the French equivalent of an Oscar -- for best actor for his interpretation of the large-nosed romantic Cyrano de Bergerac in the 1990 movie of the same name. Depardieu outrages passengers by urinating in plane
- He also invokes a fine early 20th-century English author, a bestselling New York novelist, and the Sydney-born director of Australia (after having said that Brothers has a presumably French-influenced “Cyrano de Bergerac-style struggle”). 2009 April 09 « One-Minute Book Reviews