Our host received a piece of paper from my familiar spirit. I asked if he were giving him a check or note to pay the bill. He answered no, that he had settled the account with a poem. What? A poem? I asked. Are innkeepers curious about rhymes? It's the local currency, he answered. The sextain I've just given him will cover our expenses. I wasn't afraid of coming up short. Even if we'd spent a week in luxury, it wouldn't have cost a sonnet, and I have four on me. Along with two epigrams, two odes and an eclogue.
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Cyrano de Bergerac was a 17th-century French novelist and dramatist. Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist. Read more on Wikipedia →

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