Cyrano de Bergerac,  1619-1655 <br/><br/>
A Voyage to the Moon 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comical_History_of_the_States_and_Empires_of_the_Moon  Release date is 2014-08-10 
<br/><br/>Produced by Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive)  Produced by Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive) 
<br/><br/> "A Voyage to the Moon" by Cyrano de Bergerac is a satirical novel published posthumously in 1657. Considered one of the earliest science fiction stories, it follows a narrator named Cyrano who attempts multiple flights to reach the Moon's civilization. Through encounters with four-legged inhabitants, the ghost of Socrates, and another space traveler, he engages in philosophical dialogues that challenge beliefs about God, immortality, and the human soul. The novel features an early description of rocket-powered spaceflight. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99001262 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Space flight to the moon -- Fiction Moon -- Fiction Science fiction, French -- Translations into English 
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