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Edmond (Eugene Alexis) Rostand Biography

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Name: Edmond (Eugene Alexis) Rostand
Variant Name: Edmond Eugene Alexis Rostand|Edmond Alexis Rostand|Edmond (-Eugene) Rostand|Edmond (Eugene Alexis) Rostan
Birth Date: April 1, 1868
Death Date: December 2, 1918
Nationality: French
Gender: Male

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If Edmond Rostand is known throughout the world today, it is for his play Cyrano de Bergerac (1897; translated, 1921). Although he wrote a total of seven plays and three volumes of poetry, he has been remembered through the years for the "panache" and poetry of his heroic character Cyrano. Rostand wrote at the end of the nineteenth century and was influenced both by early-nineteenth-century Romantic playwrights such as Alfred de Musset and by late-nineteenth-century literary figures such as the Decadents, who emphasized ennui and extravagance. He is notable as one of the last dramatists in France to write his plays in verse. It is often his brilliant use of language, in combination with his winning heroes and heroines, that has been responsible for the praise and continued popularity of Rostand's work.

Born in Marseilles on 1 April 1868, Rostand came from a literary and cultural family. His aunt Victorine Rostand wrote poetry; his uncle Alexis Rostand was a composer and music critic; and his father, Eugène Rostand, was a part-time poet and translator of Catullus, even though his appointment at the Académie des Sciences Politiques et Morales de Marseilles was in the department of economics.

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    Juliette M. Rogers, University of New Hampshire. Edmond (Eugene Alexis) Rostand from Dictionary of Literary Biography. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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