Cyrano de Bergerac Quote

The priests had been told that I had dared to say that the moon was the world I came from and that their world was only a moon. They believed that constituted an adequately just pretext to condemn me to drowning, which was their way of exterminating atheists.


The Other World (1657)


The priests had been told that I had dared to say that the moon was the world I came from and that their world was only a moon. They believed that...

The priests had been told that I had dared to say that the moon was the world I came from and that their world was only a moon. They believed that...

The priests had been told that I had dared to say that the moon was the world I came from and that their world was only a moon. They believed that...

The priests had been told that I had dared to say that the moon was the world I came from and that their world was only a moon. They believed that...