Sailor Moon

d’une histoire comique (1623) and Le Page disgracié (1642–3), a brisk, picaresque account of his adventurous life by Tristan l’Hermite, helped to establish an interest in real, as opposed to imagined, lives. If Cyrano’s first-person journeys to the moon and sun were highly fanciful, reality plays a stronger role in the autobiographical Aventures (1677) of his friend, d’Assoucy (1605–77). By 1660, novelists had begun to set fictional characters against historical personages (Madame de Villedieu’s Mémoires