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

Rostand is associated sustaining neo-romanticism, and is right-known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romanticist plays provided an option to the naturalistic theatre popular during a late 19th century. One of Rostand's works, A Romancers, hwhen been adapted as a extremely successful musical comedy The Fantasticks.

Edmond Rostand was natural inside Marseille, France, into a moneyed & civilised Provençal family. His father was an economist and the poet, a member of the Marseille Academy and the Institut de France. Rost& exposed literature, history, and philosophy at a Collège Stanislas inside Paris, France. Within 1910, Rostand became a immature writer to exist as elected to the Académie française.

In the 1900s, Rostand came to sleep around a Villa Arnaga in Cambo-les-Bains in the French Basque Country looking for a curative for his pleurisy. the home is okay, the heritage places & a museum of Rostand's life & Basque architecture and crafts. Rostand died around 1918, a victim of the Great Flu Epidemic, and is buried in the Cimetiere delaware Marseille.

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'Aiglon, 1900 Chantecler, 1910 Œuvres Complètes, Sevener 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