The Real Cyrano de Bergerac

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

One of the world's much loved stage and screen characters has just returned to the cinema in a new film version starring Peter Dinklage. But what may not be generally known is that Cyrano de Bergerac was a real person who was sharper, funnier and more modern than the romantic hero he inspired.

In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Cyrano's biographer Ishbel Addyman, about an extraordinary figure, whose brave, independent and visionary thinking was years ahead of its time.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit.
0:04.0	This is an episode of not just the tutors with Professor Susanna Lipskin, if you'd get into. Enjoy.
0:30.0	That was Peter Dinklage, playing Sichanod de Bourgeois, in the new film Sichanod.
0:36.0	Adapted from Eric Schmidt's play, it was directed by Joe Wright.
0:41.0	Sichanod is a flawed hero. He has an ordinary courage,
0:46.0	bravado, he is witty and brilliant, but unfortunately he has also a great deal of pride.
0:54.0	And it's a pride that stops him being able to exclaim his love for the woman he is in love with.
1:02.0	It's all the first time that Sichanod de Bourgeois has inspired a film or a play.
1:07.0	Jérard de Padur played the swashbuckling hero opposite Anne Broucher in 1990.
1:13.0	Steve Martin was a modern-day Sichanod opposite Darohanna in Roxanne in 1987.
1:20.0	And above all, there was the famous play by Edmond Rostan, which premiered in Paris in December 1897,
1:28.0	which tells the story of a burlesque figure of a man with a very long nose,
1:33.0	who wooves his beautiful cousin Roxanne by proxy.
1:37.0	She falls in love with the face of Baron Christian de Noviette, but with the words of Sichanod de Bourgeois.
1:45.0	Good night.
1:48.0	What?
1:51.0	I could no more stop loving you.
1:53.0	I could no more stop loving you.
1:55.0	And I could stop the sun rising.
1:57.0	Then I can stop the sun rising.
1:59.0	Really?
2:02.0	My cruel love has never stopped growing in my soul.
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