Fizzy and flouncy and oh, so talky, “Cyrano, My Love” imagines the creation of Edmond Rostand’s blockbuster French play, “Cyrano de Bergerac.”

Paris, 1897, is a city swarming with actors and playwrights, novelists and ne’er-do-wells. Enter Rostand ( Thomas Solivérès ), already at 29 an anxious husband, father and virtually unknown playwright. Then the famous actor Coquelin ( Olivier Gourmet ) commissions a play, a comedy to be written in verse and finished in three weeks. Oh, and a prominent role must be found for Coquelin’s dullard of a son, and the female lead must be played by an over-the-hill former prostitute ( Mathilde Seigner ) who also served as the onetime mistress of both of the play’s Corsican backers. Get to it!