Edmond Rostand

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born

April 01, 1868 in Marseille, France

died

December 02, 1918

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Literature & Fiction

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Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand was a French poet and dramatist.
Rostand is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play "Cyrano de Bergerac". Rostand's romantic plays provided an alternative to the naturalistic theatre popular during the late 19th century. One of Rostand's works, Les Romanesques, has been adapted as the highly successful musical comedy The Fantasticks.
Rostand became the youngest writer to be elected to the Académie Française.

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Average rating: 3.99 · 16,504 ratings · 507 reviews · 24 distinct works

	Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, Eteel Lawson (Introduction), Lowell Blair (Translation) 3.99 avg rating — 16,513 ratings — published 1897 — 228 editions	My rating:
	Cyrano De Bergerac: Extraits 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Chantecler 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1987 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Cyrano de Bergerac 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand, Patrick Besnier 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1916 — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Two Pierrots, Or, the Supper in White =: Les Deux Pierrots, Ou, Le Souper Blanc 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:
	L'aiglon: A Play In Six Acts (1900) 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	The Far Princess = La Princesse Lointaine: A Drama In Four Acts 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Cyrano de Bergerac: The Complete Pacemaker Text on Tape! by Edmond Rostand, Fearon (Compiler) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	Cyrano De Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts by Edmond Rostand (Author), Louis Untermeyer (Translator), Pierre Brissaud (Illustrator) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1954	My rating:

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“A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano De Bergerac

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“All our souls are written in our eyes”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano De Bergerac

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“And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love.' A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured in the bee's brief visit to a flower, secular communication with an aftertaste of heaven, the pulse rising from the heart to utter its name on a lover's lip: 'Forever.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano De Bergerac

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