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Manuscript sold for €300 is now attributed to Cyrano de Bergerac – but questions remain about the play’s authorship

French researchers recently published an edition of a previously unknown 17th-century French play that they argue could be attributed to the French satirist and dramatist Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac.

By Alisa van de Haar

https://theconversation.com/manuscript-sold-for-300-is-now-attributed-to-cyrano-de-bergerac-but-questions-remain-about-the-plays-authorship-254315?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Conversation%20Europe%2017042024&utm_content=The%20Conversation%20Europe%2017042024+CID_44962a014cf87e1b37aaa38359ff7238&utm_source=campaign_monitor_europe&utm_term=Manuscript%20sold%20for%20300%20is%20now%20attributed%20to%20Cyrano%20de%20Bergerac%20%20but%20questions%20remain%20about%20the%20plays%20authorship

At PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/43842

Cyrano de Bergerac (1619 – 1655) French dramatist and soldier, author of The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon and The Comical History of the States and the Empires of the Sun. Portrait drawn and engraved by an artist who signed with a monogram, after a painting by Zacharie Heince. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrano_de_Bergerac#/media/File:Savinien_de_Cyrano_de_Bergerac.JPG

Rare Watercolor by ‘Wuthering Heights’ Author Emily BrontĂ« Will Go on Public Display for the First Time

“The North Wind,” painted while Emily and her sister Charlotte were studying in Belgium, is now heading to the BrontĂ« family home in Yorkshire

By Eli Wizevich

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-watercolor-by-wuthering-heights-author-emily-bronte-will-go-on-public-display-for-the-first-time-180986423/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550

Portrait of Lady Charlotte Harley (1801-1880) as Ianthe (Lord Byron, "To Ianthe," Childe Harold's Pilgrimage). Drawn by R. Westall. Engraved by W. Finden. - W. Brockedon (annotator). Finden's Illustrations of Life and Works of Lord Byron. Vol. II. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1833. Lady Charlotte is depicted in a graceful, seated pose, with her head slightly tilted and gaze turned gently outward or downward. Her expression is soft, serene, and composed, exuding an air of idealized purity and introspection. She wears classical-style clothing, often a flowing gown reminiscent of Greco-Roman dress, a hallmark of Romantic portraiture. Her hair is arranged in soft curls, enhancing the youthful innocence Byron emphasized in his poem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Charlotte_Bacon#/media/File:Richard_Westall_&_W._Finden,_%22Ianthe%22.jpg

You can’t ask a dead man who pulled the trigger. ‘A Tangled Web’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set in northern Scotland.

This is the remote Croick Church in Sutherland, which has reminders of the tragic story of the Highland Clearances. The two central characters visit the church for a clandestine meeting with an informant, though after many of the trees seen in this photo were cut down.

Find out more on my website:
http://www.kenlussey.com/atw/index.html

The image shows a view over two green fields with stone walls to the end of a white-painted church that has a sagging grey slate roof and a bellcote at the far end. There are tall trees in leaf to both sides of the church and in the background the land rises to a skyline near the top of the frame. The front cover of ‘A Tangled Web’ is shown in the bottom right corner.