Biography
Edmond Rostand was born on 1 April 1868 in Marseille and studied literature, history and philosophy at the Collège Stanislas in Paris. With verse plays such as Les Romanesques (1894) and La Princesse lointaine (1895), written for Sarah Bernhardt, he turned away from the naturalistic theatre of his day and became a leading figure of neo-romanticism on the French stage. Cyrano de Bergerac brought him an overwhelming success in 1897, running for more than 300 consecutive performances, and in 1901, at the age of 33, he became the youngest writer ever elected to the Académie française. Poor health led him to move to Cambo-les-Bains in the Basque Pyrenees in 1903, where he built the Villa Arnaga and, in 1910, completed the animal fable Chantecler, his most personal work. Rostand was married to the writer Rosemonde Gérard, with whom he had two sons, Jean and Maurice Rostand, and died of Spanish influenza on 2 December 1918 in Paris.
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