Edmond Rostand
Edmond Rostand was an acclaimed 19th century playwright most famous for Cyrano de Bergerac (1897). Rostand was born in 1868 in Marseille to an artistic family. A brilliant student, he arrived in Paris to study law in 1884. He frequented literary circles and began to write, winning the prestigious annual prize of the Academie de Marseille for an essay on "Two Provencal novelists" in which he compared Honore d'Urfe and Emile Zola.
Rostand married the poet and playwright Rosemonde...