Gascony

French poet and dramatist, Edmond Rostand, in his romantic drama, Cyrano de Bergerac, depicts the major differences between courage and cowardice through contrasts in his characters. His purpose is to give the reader different impressions for each character. Rostand establishes a dramatic and challenging tone in order to effectively convey to his readers of early 17th-century France that there is a distinct difference how courage and cowardice can define the characters, as well as the major role both traits play in developing the thoughts and actions of the characters. Courage is one of the most important characteristics of Cyrano de Bergerac’s worthy hero. Cyrano’s courage is almost teeming with reckless behavior, and his flashy bravery often sparks jealousy in those around him internally: And I offer one universal challenge to you all! Approach, young heroes—I will take yours names. Each in his turn—no crowding! One, two, three— Come, get your numbers—who will head the list— You sir? No—You? Ah, no. To the first man Who falls I’ll build a monument!... Not one? Will all who wish to die, please raise their hands? (27) Cyrano has the courage to readily challenge any man to a fight because not only does he have the brains and the wit, but he also has the skill and the ability to back those words of challenge. “Did you not ask, my dear, why against one singer they send one hundred swords? Because they know this one man for a friend of mine!” (56) This line in particular…

Edward II and their son, Edward III was the closest male relative in the line from French King (Spielvogel, 2015, p.308). Therefore, the battle of the throne began by Edward III laying claim to the French throne. Nevertheless, his rightful heir claim was rejected by the French nobility followed by Salic law “which stated that property (including the throne) could not descend through a female” (Nelson, n.d.). French nobility chose Philip VI of Valois as a king of France who was the old King…

Despite this naval triumph, the French army remained formidable and reluctant to engage in direct confrontation. Exhausted by the prolonged conflict, Edward's Flemish allies began to show signs of resistance. In September 1340, the Countess of Hainaut, Edward's mother-in-law and Philip's sister, emerged from retirement to propose a truce, which both kings accepted. The truce, signed on September 23, 1340, remained in effect until the middle of summer in 1341. The Normandy Campaign The truce did…

Would you believe me if I told you that there were a series of wars over a city 10s of thousands of years ago that are a main effect on our religion today? The crusades were a series of 9 holy wars which first started in the year 1095. The wars were over a holy city called Jerusalem. The wars were between the Christians and the Muslims. The Christians lost all of the wars to the Muslims except the first one. The Crusades were primarily caused by religious devotion because the Christians wanted…

Lord and strive not for present but for future things, would, although only as an idle spectator yet a kindly well-wisher, exalt the glorious men of our time who have overcome the kingdoms of this world and who, for the sake of the blessed Shepherd who sought the hundredth sheep that was lost, have left wife and child, principalities and riches, and have taken their lives in their hands... The many peoples who took part in the First Crusade. [After Urban had aroused the spirits of all by the…

Richard was born on September 8th 1157 at Beaumont Palace in Oxford, England. He was the third of five sons of king Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Richard's father was an energetic and ruthless ruler, who managed to take control of large parts of Wales, the eastern half of Ireland and the western half of France (from Normandy to the Pyrenees, including, among others, the duchies of Gascony and Aquitaine, the counties of Anjou, Poitou, Maine and Touraine) , what would later come to…

book explains the reality that is happening around him by exemplifying experiences from other places like France in the case of Chapter IV regarding Why the Kingdom of Darius, conquered by Alexander did not rebel against the successors of Alexander at his death. Two of many other exemplifications could be found in Chapter II, named Concerning Hereditary Principalities, where the author in comment says “we have in Italy, for example, the Duke of Ferrara, who could not have withstood the attacks…

The Three Musketeers book has a lot of information about D’Artagnan. D’Artagnan was a poor man who left his house to become a Musketeer. He left Gascony go to Paris to make his fortune. He never married and he was a hot-headed, prideful and especially young man who never gave up on a fight. He had a problem with Stranger and Musketeers. He never asked people for help because he wanted to solve his own problems, no matter how dangerous the enemy was. He never surrendered. He fought until someone…

Motivations of the Crusaders The crusades were a holy conquest primarily taken up in the hands of Europeans, at the request of a pious individual. They represent an incredibly prominent era of world history. An era of political conflicts, both internal and external. However, very often the motivations for the different groups active in these conflicts are ignored, or manifest in an oversimplification of the truth. The first crusade, which was initiated by Pope Urban II in response to the…

gay jest. Come, hearten them up.” (Act IV scene II) After being called by Carbon, Cyrano is able to use his wit and poetic abilities to remind the cadets of who they are and where they are from in order to get them back in line. He has a nearby flute player play a song from Gascoyne that reminds the cadets of their home, causing them to cease their mutiny and reflect back on their homeland. “Hark to the music, Gascons!. . .'Tis no longer the piercing fife of camp—but 'neath his fingers the flute…