Maurice Rostand
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Maurice Rostand (1891 – February 21, 1968) was a French playwright, the son of the noted 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 [1] and Lucien Daudet and was one of the noted homosexual personalities that frequented the salons during the period between the wars.
In 1948, he published his memoirs, Confession d'un demi-siècle. He is interred in Passy Cemetery.
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[edit] Works
[edit] 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.
[edit] Other
- Les Insomnies Poemes 1914-1923, 1923
- L'homme que j'ai tue par, 1925
- Confession d'un demi-siècle, 1948
- Sarah Bernhardt, 1950
[edit] Biography
- Marcel Migeo: Les Rostand, Paris, Stock, 1973. About Edmond, Rosemonde, Jean and Maurice Rostand.
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