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Edmond Rostand
French poet and dramatist (1868–1918)
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (,[1],[2][3]French:[ɛdmɔ̃ʁɔstɑ̃]; 1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist.
He is associated with neo-romanticism and is known best for his 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Rostand's romantic plays contrasted with the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century. Another of Rostand's works, Les Romanesques (1894), was adapted to the 1960 musical comedyThe Fantasticks.
Early life
Rostand was born in Marseille, France, into a wealthy and cultured Provençal family. His father was an economist, a poet who translated and edited the works of Catullus,[4] and a member of the Marseille Academy and the Institut de France.
Rostand studied literature, history, and philosophy at the Collège Stanislas in Paris, France.
Career
When Rostand was twenty years old, his first play, a one-act comedy, Le Gant rouge