Maurice Rostand
Maurice Rostand (26 May 1891 – 21 February 1968) was a French author, the son of the poet and dramatist Edmond Rostand and the poet Rosemonde Gérard, and brother of the biologist Jean Rostand. Rostand was a writer of poems, novels, and plays. He was friends with Jean Cocteau and Lucien Daudet and was one of the homosexual personalities who frequented the salons during the period between the wars.
Maurice Rostand
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- Born
- 26 May 1891
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Died
- 21 February 1968
- Place of death
- Ville-d'Avray, France
- Occupation
- Novelist, dramatist, poet
- Nationality
- France
- Languages
- French
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Maurice Rostand (26 May 1891 – 21 February 1968) was a French author, the son of the poet and dramatist Edmond Rostand and the poet Rosemonde Gérard, and brother of the biologist Jean Rostand. Rostand was a writer of poems, novels, and plays. He was friends with Jean Cocteau and Lucien Daudet and was one of the homosexual personalities who frequented the salons during the period between the wars.
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Rostand was defined as a pacifist and a leftist whose ideas bore him the hate of the far-right press, which mocked his homosexuality, particularly L'Action française and Émile Buré's L'Ordre. In 1948, he published his memoirs, Confession d'un demi-siècle. He is interred in Passy Cemetery.
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• Born — 26 May 1891 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 21 February 1968 • Place of death — Ville-d'Avray, France • Occupation — Novelist, dramatist, poet • Illustration — Caricature of Rostand by Barrère
Plays
Plays
• La Gloire, 1921 • La Mort de Molière, Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt, 1922 • Le Masque de fer, 1923 • Le Secret du Sphinx, pièce en 4 actes, 1924 • Monsieur de Letoriere: Piece en Quatre Actes et Cinq Tableaux en Vers, 1931 • Le procès d'Oscar Wilde, 1935 Some works were written in collaboration with his mother, Rosemonde Gérard.
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• Les Insomnies Poemes 1914–1923, 1923 • L'homme que j'ai tué, 1925 • Confession d'un demi-siècle, 1948 • Sarah Bernhardt, 1950
Biography
Biography
• Marcel Migeo: Les Rostand, Paris, Stock, 1973. About Edmond, Rosemonde, Jean and Maurice Rostand.
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Maurice Rostand is recorded with the occupation playwright. Recorded as writer, poet and playwright.
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1891
Maurice Rostand was born on 26 May 1891.
1968
Maurice Rostand died on 21 February 1968.
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