“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.”

— Cyrano de Bergerac

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French novelist, dramatist, scientist and duelist 1619–1655

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