page_title: 1655 in France
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1655 in France / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Portrait de Cyrano dessiné et gravé par un artiste non identifié d'après un tableau de Zacharie Heince sur lequel figuraient Henry Le Bret et Jean Royer de Prade. English: 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.
context_page_description: Events from the year 1655 in France
context_section_description: 27 February – Henri Chabot, nobleman (born 1616)
  6 April – David Blondel, clergyman, historian and classical scholar (born 1591)
  28 July – Cyrano de Bergerac, novelist and playwright, (born 1619).
  7 September – François Tristan l'Hermite, dramatist (born c.1601)
  24 October – Pierre Gassendi, philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer and mathematician (born 1592)
caption: Cyrano de Bergerac
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