Only son, nicknamed the Eaglet, who died at the age of 21. This tragedy was based on the life of Napoleon
Produced Cyrano de Bergerac became his most popular and enduring work – at that time he was 29-year-old. It was producedĪt the Comédie Française and was based on Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.
Rostand's first successful play was Les Romanesques (1894, The Romantics / The Fantasticks). Satiric portrait, Ignace, ou l'écrivain (1923), was about a hypersensitive writer, partly based on his father and brother. Jean Rostand was a biologist, who published essaysĪnd manuals and treatises on various aspects of biology. The His memoirs, Confession d'un demi-siècle, came Maurice Rostand (1891-1968) wrote poems, plays ( Le procès d'Oscar Wilde, 1935), and novels. Their two sons, Jean and Maurice, also became writers. Granddaughter of one of Napoleon's marshals, whom he married in the He gave the work to the poet Rosemonde Gérard, a Rostand abandoned his law studies after publishing his first book of poems, Les Musardises Rostand's first play, Le Gant Rouge, was produced at the Théâtre Cluny with little success, but the lighthearted Les Deux Pierrots, Ou Le Souper Blanc (1891) attracted the attention of the Comédie Française. Published poems and essays in the literary review Mireille. Studied literature, history, and philosophy. In the 1880s he While attending Collège Stanislas in Paris, Rostand Though Rostand never became an orthodoxĬhristian, religious themes and symbols often surfaced in his His father, Eugène Rostand, was an economist andĪ poet, a member of the Marseille Academy and the Institute de France.Įugène's brother Alexis was a successful financier, who hadĪ passion for music. The oratorio of the two brothers, Ruth, That my hand soon will come to cuff-is all As empty.Įdmond Rostand was born in Marseille into a wealthy and cultured Rascal contemptible! For that witless face Liberal, brave, just like myself, and such Of a soul affable, and kind, and courteous, 'Tis well known, a big nose is indicative That I am proud possessing such appendice. 'Tis enormous! Old Flathead, empty-headed meddler, know Of Henrik Ibsen and the symbolist theatre of Maurice Maeterlinck. Rostand's plays were romantic andĮntertaining, providing an alternative both to the naturalistic theatre TheĬonnection between the true Cyrano, the 17th century French soldier,ĭramatist, and soldier, is nominal. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĮdmond (Eugège Joseph Alexis) Rostand (1868-1918)įrench poet and dramatist, best-known from his play Cyrano de Bergerac,Ībout the heroic individualist, who has an outsized nose.
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