This is the fantastic story of Cyrano de Bergerac, who lived in one of the most exciting and dangerous periods of the sensational history of France - about 1640. It is also the story of Cyrano de Bergerac's nose, a very large nose indeed. So sensitive was Cyrano abou the size of his nose that he made himself his country's foremost swordsman defending it, became her most talked of poet in spite of it, and yet ran away from the one great love of his life because of it!