Voyages to the Moon and the Sun

by Cyrano de Bergerac

[49] Something seems to have been omitted in this sentence.

[50] Cyrano had the true coterie spirit towards his friends. Compare his description of poor, drunken, gambling Tristan in The Moon.

[51] Patron of madmen.

[52] It is thought The Moon circulated in MS. before publication; this explains the entry in Marolles's memoirs.

[53] Note that Cyrano's worst persecutor in this Voyage to the Earth is a country parson. See Introduction.

[54] Drycona = D. Cyrano.

[55] Cyrano's eleventh satirical letter is addressed to Messire Jean; in the MS. of the Bibl. Nat. its title is Apotheosis of an Ecclesiastical Buffoon.

[56] Mr Pickwick in the Fleet, "sitting for his portrait"!

[57] These ideas and speculations are remarkable for 1650.

[58] This sentence is so obscure that I do not understand it either in French or English.