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Rostand, Edmond
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Rostand, Edmond (1868–1918)

French poetic dramatist. He wrote Cyrano de Bergerac (1898) and L'Aiglon (1900) (based on the life of Napoleon III), in which Sarah Bernhardt played the leading role.



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It makes no mention of the best of his verse dramas, La Gloire, however, which opened in 1921 with none other than Sarah Bernhardt in the title role, nor the fact that Rostand tried to keep alive the drama in heroic verse that his father had single-handedly revived.
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