At the end of this play, a character mortally wounded by a falling log states his panache (“puh-NOSH”) remains with him. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Edmond Rostand play in which the title character writes love letters to Roxane because the cadet Christian is too shy to approach her.
ANSWER: Cyrano de Bergerac
[10e] Cyrano makes many jokes about this abnormally large feature of his. In the Carlo Collodi novel Pinocchio, this body part of a wooden doll grows when he lies.
ANSWER: the nose [or nez; accept Cyrano’s nose or Pinocchio’s nose]
[10m] As Cyrano is dying, his friends lament that this real-life playwright has plagiarized Cyrano’s work. In a work by this playwright, Argan hides underneath a table as a religious fraud attempts to seduce his wife.
ANSWER: Molière [or Jean-Baptiste Poquelin] (The play is Tartuffe.)
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