Rostand's real fame was the play Cyrano de Bergerac, staged in 1897, starring Constant Coquelin and Sarah Bernhardt.
He was born on April 1, 1868 in Marseille and died on December 2, 1918 in Paris. After studying at College Stanislas in Paris, he graduated from the Faculty of Law. He began literature by writing poetry. Les romanesques ("The Dreamers"), which followed a few short plays that did not receive much attention, was staged in the Comedie Français in 1894 and was a great success. Rostand's real fame was the play Cyrano de Bergerac, staged in 1897, starring Constant Coquelin and Sarah Bernhardt.
Edmond Rostand was born on April 1, 1868, in Marseille, France, to a wealthy and cultured Provencal family.
His father is an economist and also a poet who was a member of the Marseille Academy and the Institut de France. Rosdant studied literature, history, and philosophy at the College Stanislas de Paris in France.
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism and is known best for his 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays contrasted with the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century. Another of Rostand's works, Les Romanesques (1894), was adapted to the 1960 musical comedy The Fantasticks.
Les Romanesques, the first play by Edmond Rostand, was shown on the stage of the Theater Français on 21 May 1894.
This work of the author was adapted in the 1960s by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt as the long-lived American musical The Fantasticks.
Edmond Rostand became the youngest writer to be admitted to the French Academy in 1901. His poem, Les Pipeaux, which was honored by the academy, was published in 1890.
Edmond Rostand lived in the Villa Arnaga in Cambo-les-Bains, in the French North Basque Country, where he came from in the 1900s looking for a cure for pleurisy.
The house he lived in is now a heritage site and a museum for Edmond Rostand's life, Basque architecture, and crafts. Rosdant died of the Spanish flu in 1918 and was buried in the Cimetiere de Marseille.
Life story
Rostand was born in Marseille, France, in 1868. His father was Eugène Rostand, who was also a writer. After graduating from high school, Rostand studied philosophy at the Sorbonne University in Paris but continued his career as a writer.
Rostand wrote several plays in the 1890s, but his real success was with the play "Cyrano de Bergerac" in 1897. This play tells the life of "Cyrano de Bergerac", a romantic story set in 17th-century France. The play tells the letters that the poet named Cyrano wrote for Roxane, who is in love with him, but in reality, he has someone else write them on his behalf, and a series of romantic and tragic events. The play was a huge success and became Rostand's most famous work.
Brief Information About Cyrano de Bergerac: Edmond Rostand's play with a five-act rune. The subject is considered to be taken from the life of the real Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655). The success of the author is that despite his ugliness, his heart is high, his nose is incredible, as well as the selfless love of a swordsman, knight-spirited lover in a very vivid and witty way. Knowing that Roxane, who knows that Roxane will not love him, loves someone else, Cyrano de Bergerac resists his selfless love, offering all the values of his personality for the benefit of the novice lover Christian.