Below is a list of shout-outs found in the Edmond Rostand play.
- After Cyrano fights a duel while improvising a poem early in the play, d'Artagnan (also a Gascon) shows up briefly to tell him how cool it was. In real life they were contemporaries - it would be surprising if Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655) and d'Artagnan (1615-1673) had not run into each other quite a bit.
- In Act I Scene VII: Theophrast Reunadet shows up briefly only to be dismissed by Cyrano ("Who cares?"). Renaudet was homely and this affected him throughout his life (the real Cyrano seemed not so affected by this), an incident at his youth drove him to help the poor and the outcasts, highly idealistic and talented, was named the royal doctor and create La Gazzete, the first official paper of the world, and at 1632 was recognized by the King as one of finest Frenchmen. He (like Cyrano in the play) died in obscurity and poverty in 1653. The parallelism between his life and Cyrano’s character in this play were not highlighted by the English wiki article, but they were in the Spanish article: here
. - Act I Scene III, Montfleury says the first lines of Phedon, a character from “La Clorise”, a real play written by Balthazar Baró, Cyrano’s contemporary playwright. It's an exercise to the reader after seeing the first three lines of the play if this is a true Shout-Out or a Take That!:
- Montfleury:: "Heureux qui loin des cours, dans un lieu solitaire,
Se prescrit a soi-meme un exil volontaire,
Et qui, lorsque Zephire a souffle sur les bois. . ."
- To Tito and Berenice and Cesar and Cleopatra, two of the most famous romances in history at Act I Scene V.
- To the The Adventures of Pinocchio in Act II Scene III.
- At Act II Scene VII To Don Quixote, a deluded Day Dream Believer old Impoverished Patrician called Alonso Quijano who believes himself an Knight Errant, the original Lord Error-Prone, a Jerkass that disrupts everyone’s life. This book also references The Ghost Aldonza Lorenzo, a poor peasant girl, whom Don Quixote uses as an inspiration to create Dulcinea del Toboso, a Shadow Archetype of the Courtly Love Satellite Love Interest (who represents all that is lovable in a woman, with none of their defects, like the Hero Of Romance represents all that is lovable in a man for Roxane).De Guiche (who has controlled himself—smiling):"Have you read Don Quixote?"CYRANO: I have!
