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Gontran's release. She has taken a distinct fancy to him, and Cyrano is half forgotten. In Gontran's honour she gives a brilliant fĂŞte. Cyrano, in accordance with their pact, comes to return Ninon's billet doux, and she is ready to surrender
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Ninon and Gaston. Diane and Cyrano are so furious with jealousy that they impulsively agree to marry each other. He wants to marry her immediately, but Diane makes it a condition that they wait thirty days, during which he must not fight anybody.
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fights a duel. He crosses swords with his drunken friend
Rouffignac, who has chosen this convenient moment to pick a fight. By duelling, Cyrano breaches the conditions of his engagement, and the two couples are free to marry their true loves.
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MĂ©licerte appears on the scene and Cyrano asks him for the hand of his ward. At this point the authorities catch up with the duellists, and Cyrano is sent to fight in the army and
Gontran is taken to the Bastille.
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as "a pretty, singularly innocent comic opera with tuneful, elegant music", and observed that it seemed possibly a little out of place at the
Bouffes-Parisiens, and would have been well suited to the
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Duettino – Ah! que s'aimer (Ah, what love – Diane, Gontran)
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Duetto – Tant de charmes (So many charms – Diane, Ninon)
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