Edmond Rostand

Edmond Eugne Alexis Rostand was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neoromanticism, and is known best for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostands romantic plays contrasted with the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century. Another of Rostands works, Les Romanesques, was adapted to the musical comedy, The Fantasticks.

Rostand was born in Marseille, France, into a wealthy and cultured Provenal family. His father was an economist, a poet who translated and edited the works of Catullus, and a member of the Marseille Academy and the Institut de France. Rostand studied literature, history, and philosophy at the Collge Stanislas in Paris, France.

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