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Statue dedicated to Edmond Rostand in Cambo-les-Bains

Edmond Eug�ne Alexis Rostand (April 1, 1868 - December 2, 1918), French poet and dramatist.

Rostand is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best-known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays provided an alternative to the naturalistic theatre popular during the late 19th century. One of Rostand's works, The Romantics, has been adapted as the highly successful musical comedy The Fantasticks.

Edmond Rostand was born in Marseille, France, into a wealthy and cultured Proven�al family. His father was an economist and a poet, a member of the Marseille Academy and the Institut de France. Rostand studied literature, history, and philosophy at the Coll�ge Stanislas in Paris, France. In 1901, Rostand became the youngest writer to be elected to the Acad�mie fran�aise.

In the 1900s, Rostand came to live in the Villa Arnaga in Cambo-les-Bains in the French Basque Country looking for a cure for his pleurisy. The house is now a heritage site and a museum of Rostand's life and Basque architecture and crafts. Rostand died in 1918, a victim of the Great Flu Epidemic, and is buried in the Cimeti�re de Marseille.

Short Biography

Edmond Rostand born April 1, 1868, Marseille, France died Dec. 2, 1918, Paris (Influenza)

Rostand, 1905 Harlingue—H. Roger-Viollet French dramatist of the period just before World War I whose plays provide a final, very belated example of Romantic drama in France.

Rostand's name is indissolubly linked with that of his most popular and enduring play, Cyrano de Bergerac. First performed in Paris in 1897, with the famous actor Constant Coquelin playing the lead character, Cyrano.

Selected works

Sarah Bernhardt as M�lisande in La Princesse Lointaine.

• Le Gant Rouge, 1888 - The Red Glove
• Les Musardises, 1890 - "Musings"
• Les Romanesques, 1894 - The Romantics
• La Princesse Lointaine, 1895 - The Faraway Princess
• La Samaritaine, 1897 - The Woman of Samaria
• Cyrano de Bergerac, 1897
• L'Aiglon, 1900
• Chantecler, 1910
• Œuvres Compl�tes, 7 vols., 1910-1911
• La derni�re nuit de Don Juan, 1921 - The Last Night of Don Juan
• Le Cantique de L'aile, 1922
• Le Vol de La Marseillaise, 1922
• Th��tre, 1921-1929