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Edmond Rostand
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand 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.
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culture · French poet and dramatist (1868–1918) · playwright · writer · poet · essayist · also Edmond Rostand, Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand, Rostand
Born 1 April 1868 · Died 2 December 1918 · Q202749
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2026· 2 entries
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2022· 1 entry
London Evening Standard: Who was Edmond Rostand? Google Doodle celebrates Cyrano de Bergerac writer
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2003· 1 entry
“The Time Traveler from The Other World”
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1960· 1 entry
By Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt into the long-running American musical The Fantasticks
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1918· 6 entries
Died 1918-12-02.
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A victim of the flu pandemic, and is buried in the Cimetière de Marseille
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“O que é a vida sem um sonho?”
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“Cyrano: ¡Él [el cardenal Richelieu] no puede pagarme tanto como puedo yo. Porque cuando me gusta un verso que he escrito, le pago al escritor la recompensa más alta que puede haber: cantándolo a mí mismo!.”
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“Nie żądajmy od naszej żony, by była doskonała, ale tylko by wiedziała, że nie jest.”
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Rostand died in 1918, a victim of the flu pandemic, and is buried in the Cimetière de Marseille.
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1911· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1911).
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1901· 2 entries
Rostand became the youngest writer ever to be elected to the Académie française
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Career landmark: seat 31 of the Académie française (1901–1918).
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1895· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Toirac (1895).
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1890· 2 entries
Rostand published a volume of poems called Les Musardises
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Published Les Pipeaux: a volume of verse commended by the Academy
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1889· 1 entry
And the composer quickly set three of his poems (and two of hers) to music; the following year the two collaborated on À la musique for the house-warming of a mutual friend
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1868· 1 entry
Born 1868-04-01.
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