Cyrano's Moon is a society that treats the human visitor as a curiosity and turns his customs back on him, the device Swift uses in Brobdingnag and among the Houyhnhnms. Swift's debt to Cyrano has been argued since the eighteenth century.
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Histoire comique des États et Empires de la Lune (Other worlds: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon)
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The first voyage to the Moon in European literature is Lucian's, and Cyrano's is its seventeenth-century descendant: a comic lunar journey that becomes a vehicle for satire, now carrying the new astronomy and libertine philosophy instead of Greek historians.