Panache is referred to explicitly at two points in the play, but is implicit throughout: For example, Cyrano’s challenges to Montfleury, Valvert, and at one point, the whole audience, at the theatre (Act I) and his nonchalant surrender of a months salary to pay for the damages; his duel with a hundred footpads at the Porte de Nesle,(Act II) and his dismissal of the exploit when talking to Roxanne ( “I’ve been much braver since then”); his crossing the Spanish lines daily to deliver Roxanne’s letters (Act IV); and his leaving his death-bed in order to keep his appointment with her in Act VI.