Histoire Comique
Subtitle: Contenant les Estats & Empires de la Lune.
By: Par Monsieur De Cyrano Bergerac :
Publisher: Chez Charles de Sercy, au Palais, dans la Sale Dauphine, à la Bonne-Foy couronnée
Published: 1659
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 191
Notes: 'A travers toutes les extravagances dont ces ouvrages sont pleins, on voit qu'à une imagination singulière [Bergerac] joignait une connaissance parfaite des principes de Descartes. Boileau n'était pas sans quelque estime, ou du moins sans quelque goût pour lui; il a dit: "J'aime mieux Bergerac et sa burlesque audace,/Que ces vers ou Motin se morfond et nous glace"' [Biog.Univ.]

Savinien de Cyrano, known as Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655), was 'one of his century's most colourful and controversial figures and most talented and original French writers. He was initially a soldier, known for his bravery. Fact and fantasy are hopelessly entangled in his subsequent biography. ... Cyrano's complicity in his own fictionalization is undeniable: the various signatures he began to use in the 1630s include Hercule de Bergerac and Alexandre de Cyrano Bergerac' [NOCLF]

First printed, without date, ca 1650 in 12mo, and subsequently many reimpressions in same format in 1656, 1659 1661 etc.

Brunet 2, 461.
Table of contents: title: Contains, after title-page and preceding main text: dedicatory epistle signed: 'Le Bret' (4 leaves); on verso of last: 'Extrait du Privilege du Roy', followed by 'Preface' (19 leaves); Henri Le Bret (? 1617-1710), the editor of this work, was a friend ofthe author.