In 1911 Jean Lemoine made known the inventory of Abel de Cyrano's worldly goods.Reprinted in </ref> His library, relatively poorly stocked (126 volumes), testifies to his schooling as a jurist and to an open curiosity: a taste for languages and ancient literature, the great humanists of the Renaissance (Erasmus, Rabelais, Juan Luis Vivès), knowledge of Italian, interest in the sciences. On the religious side, one notices the presence of two Bibles, of an Italian New Testament and the Prayers of St. Basil in Greek, but no pious works. There is no object of that kind (engraving, painting, statue, crucifix) amongst the other inventoried items, but in contrast "twelve small paintings of portraits of gods and goddesses" and "four wax figures: one of Venus and Cupid, another of a woman pulling a thorn, one of a flageolet player and one of an ashamed nude woman". Finally, one notes the presence of several books by well-known Protestants: the "Discours politiques et militaires" ("Political and Military Discourse") of François de la Noue, two volumes of George Buchanan, the "Dialectique" of Pierre de La Ramée, the "Alphabet de plusieurs sortes de lettres" ("Alphabet of different kinds of letters") by master calligrapher Pierre Hamon and "La Vérité de la religion chrétienne" ("The Truth of the Christian Religion") by Philippe Duplessis-Mornay, whose presence confirms that Abel spent his younger years in Huguenot surroundings.