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[assimbya]

Would anyone happen to know if there is any discussion around about the ways in which Cervantes' writing might have influenced Victor Hugo? Because I'm thinking that surely this is something people have to discuss.

(Now I have to go and find out how commonly read Don Quixote was in nineteenth-century France

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[hsavinien]

I've no idea about Hugo, but there is a discussion in Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand about 'tilting at windmills' and the dangers and glories thereof.

[assimbya]

Ooh, thank you! Very useful.

[hsavinien]

Cyrano is my pet classic French composition, so... <3

[assimbya]

Ah. I admit to not have read it (yet), but I quite understand the emotion nonetheless.

[hsavinien]

Oh, you must! That's where my screenname comes from. Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac.

[assimbya]

I shall make a point of doing so!