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  1. The story takes place in 1655. Cyrano de Bergerac is a cadet in the French army
  2. who is plagued by having a very long nose. He is secretly in love with his beautiful
  3. cousin Roxane, who in turn is in love with young baron Christian de Neuvillette
  4. while being courted by Cardinal de Richelieu’s nephew, Antoine de Guiche. While
  5. Cyrano is self-conscious about his nose, Christian is self-conscious about his lack of
  6. wit and eloquence. Cyrano helps Christian to reach Roxane’s heart by writing love
  7. letters for him. Christian and Roxane get married and jealous de Guiche sends Cyrano
  8. and Christian’s regiment on a suicide mission. Christian is killed in battle. Many
  9. years later, Roxane comes to realize that Cyrano was the one who wrote the beautiful
  10. letters all along and understands now that Cyrano is the man she really loves. Cyrano,
  11. who was wounded by a vengeful enemy, dies in Roxane’s arms.
  12. Cultural Background
  13. The film is adapted from a play written by Edmond Rostand in 1897. The play is in
  14. verses. The character of Cyrano is modeled after a writer and duellist who lived in the
  15. 17th century. The play Cyrano de Bergerac became popular upon being first shown
  16. and has since been translated and performed in many languages. It has also been
  17. adapted for the screen many times. The American film Roxanne (1987), starring
  18. Steve Martin, is an adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac.
  19. Cyrano de Bergerac makes multiple references to the Gascon people. La Gascogne
  20. (Gascony) is an area located in the southwest of France, close to the Spanish border.
  21. Like d’Artagnan (hero of Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers), Edmond
  22. Rostand’s Cyrano was a Gascon. In Cyrano de Bergerac, the Gascons and the
  23. northeners often comment on each other with contempt, showing that regional
  24. differences were important in 17th century France.
  25. De Guiche, Cyrano, and Christian all belong to a regiment of cadets. At the time, the
  26. cadets corps was composed of noblemen from Gascogne. In the film, the cadets are
  27. sent to fight the Spanish forces in Arras, a town located on the opposite side of
  28. France, at the very northern tip of the country. The French siege of Arras took place
  29. in the 1640s, during the Thirty Years’ War (la guerre de Trente Ans), a war that
  30. involved several European countries.
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