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ROSTAND, EDMOND (1869- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 754 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROSTAND, EDMOND (1869- ) , See also:French dramatist, was See also:born on the 1st of See also:April 1869, the son of See also:Joseph See also:Eugene See also:Herbert Rostand (b. 1843), a prominent journalist and economist of See also:Marseilles. His first See also:play, a See also:burlesque, See also:Les romanesques, was produced on the 21st of May 1894 at the See also:Theatre See also:Francais. He took the See also:motive of his second piece, La Princesse lointaine (Theatre de la See also:Renaissance, 5th April 1895), from the See also:story of the See also:troubadour Rudel and the See also:Lady of See also:Tripoli. The See also:part of Melissande was created by Sarah See also:Bernhardt, who also was the See also:original Photine of La Samaritaine (Theatre de la Renaissance, 14th April 1897), a Biblical See also:drama in three scenes taken from the See also:gospel story of the woman of See also:Samaria. The See also:production of his " heroic See also:comedy " of Cyrano de See also:Bergerac (28th See also:December 1897, Theatre de la See also:Porte See also:Saint-See also:Martin), with See also:Coquelin in the See also:title-role, was a See also:triumph. No such See also:enthusiasm for a drama in See also:verse had been known since the days of See also:Hugo's Hernani. The play was quickly translated into See also:English, See also:German, See also:Russian and other See also:European See also:languages. For his See also:hero he had See also:drawn on French 17th-See also:century See also:history; in L'Aiglon he See also:chose a subject from See also:Napoleonic See also:legend, suggested probably by See also:Henri Welschinger's Roi de See also:Rome, 1811-32 (1897), which contained much new See also:information about the unhappy See also:life of the See also:duke of See also:Reichstadt, son of See also:Napoleon I. and See also:Marie See also:Louise, under the surveillance of Metternich at the See also:palace of Schonbrunn. L'Aiglon, in six acts and in verse, was produced (15th See also:March 1900) by Sarah Bernhardt at her own theatre, she herself undertaking the part of the duke of Reichstadt. In 1902 Rostand was elected to the French See also:Academy. His Chantecler, produced in See also:February 1910, was awaited with an See also:interest (enhanced by considerable delay in the production) hardly equalled by the enthusiasm of its reception.

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Guitry was in the title-role and Mme. See also:Simone played the part of the See also:pheasant, the play being a fantasy of See also:bird and See also:animal life, and the characters denizens of the farmyard and the See also:woods. Rostand's wife, nee Rosemonde ltienette See also:Gerard, published in 1890 Les Pipeaux, a See also:volume of verse crowned by the Academy. See a See also:notice by See also:Henry See also:James in vol. 84, pp. 477 seq. of the See also:Corn-See also:hill See also:Magazine.

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