Voyages to the Moon and the Sun

by Cyrano de Bergerac

[39] See Introduction.

[40] See Introduction.

[41] This shows the disciple of Lucretius.

[42] See Appendix I.

[43] This idea comes from Charles Sorel's Berger Extravagant.

[44] Charles Sorel's Histoire Comique de Francion, 1626.

[45] This Spaniard is introduced by Cyrano because in Godwin's Man in the Moon, of which a French translation appeared in March 1648, one Gonzales reaches the Moon in a car drawn by gansas. See Appendix I.

[46] Meaning, I suppose, that everything which is not Spanish is ridiculous.

[47] This from so renowned a duellist and so brave a soldier is worth noting.

[48] The likeness to a gramophone is obvious.