Bergerac, Savinien Cyrano de, an eccentric man with comic power, a Gascon by birth; wrote a tragedy and a comedy; his best work a fiction entitled “Histoire Comique des États et Empires de la Lune et du Soleil”; fought no end of duels in vindication, it is said, of his preposterously large nose (1619‒1655).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bergerac * Berghaus, Heinrich