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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 Romancers, has been adapted as the highly successful musical comedy The Fantasticks.

Edmond Rostand was born in Marseille, France, into a wealthy and cultured Provençal family. His father was an economistAn economist is someone who studies Economics. See also List of economists. The Economist is also a news journal published in London. Life, physical, and social science occupations Social science occupations. and a poet, a member of the Marseille Academy and the Institut de FranceThe Institut de France (French Institute) is a French learned society, grouping five academies the most famous of which is probably the Academie francaise. The institute manages approximately one thousand foundations. It also awards prizes and subsidies,. Rostand studied literature, history, and philosophy at the Collège Stanislas in Paris, France. In 1910, Rostand became the youngest writer to be elected to the Académie françaiseThe Academie francaise (French Academy) is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Academie, limited to forty members, has the task of acting as an official authority on the language, even though it has no enf.

He died on December 2, 1918, a victim of the Great Flu Epidemic, and is buried in the Cimetiere de Marseille, Marseille, France.

1 Selected works

• Le Gant Rouge , 1888 - The Red Glove
• Les Musardises , 1890 - The Idlers
• Les Romanesques , 1894 - The Romantics
• La Princesse lointaine , 1895 - The Faraway Princess
• La Samariaine , 1897 - The Woman of Samaria
• Cyrano de Bergerac, 1897
• L'AiglonNapoleon II of France L'Aiglon (play) L'Aiglon was the nickname of Napoleon's son, also known as Napoleon II of France. The name is French for "eaglet" (a young eagle). It is also the name of a play by Edmond Rostand, about Napoleon II's life., 1900
• Chantecler , 1910
• Œuvres Complètes, 7 vols., 1910-11
• La dernière nuit de Don Juan , 1921 - The Last Night of Don Juan
• Le Cantique de L'aile , 1922
• Le Vol de La Marseillaise , 1922
• Thèâtre, 1921-29

2 External link

• Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg PG was launched by Michael Hart in 1971 in order to provide a library, on what would later become the Internet, of free electronic versions (sometimes called e-texts) of physically existing books. The texts provided are mostly in the pub e-texts of Cyrano de Bergerac - in French, and in English translation by Gladys Thomas and Mary F. Guillemard