Edmond Rostand

Edmond Rostand was born in Marseille on 1 April 1868; his father was an economist. He studied at the Collège Stanislas in Paris and in 1890 married the poet Rosemonde Gérard. He had his first major success in the theatre in 1894 and three years later produced the play that made his fame. Elected to the Académie française on 30 May 1901, at the age of thirty-three, he was its youngest member of his time. He died in Paris on 2 December 1918.

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• TheatreCyrano de BergeracEdmond Rostand · 1897LiteraturePublic domain