Edmond Rostand

Edmond Rostand was born in Marseille in 1868 into a wealthy and cultured family. He studied law in Paris but turned to writing, publishing a book of poems and having his first plays staged in the 1890s. In 1890 he married the poet Rosemonde Gérard. His romantic verse comedy Cyrano de Bergerac opened in Paris in 1897 and was a triumph. It tells the story of a brilliant swordsman and poet with an enormous nose who secretly writes love letters for a handsome but tongue-tied friend to the woman he himself loves, Roxane. The play was loosely based on the real seventeenth-century writer Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac and revived the popularity of verse drama at a time when realistic plays dominated. Rostand's later play L'Aiglon, about Napoleon's son, starred the actress Sarah Bernhardt. He was elected to the Académie française in 1901, the youngest writer to be elected at that time. Poor health led him to settle in Cambo-les-Bains in the Basque country. He died in Paris in 1918 during the influenza epidemic.

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