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Nationality
  
French

Name
  
Maurice Rostand

Movies
  
Broken Lullaby

Signature
  

Role
  
Author

Siblings
  
Jean Rostand


Born
  
May 26, 1891 Paris, France (
1891-05-26
)

Occupation
  
Novelist, dramatist, poet

Died
  
February 21, 1968, Ville-d'Avray, France

Parents
  
Rosemonde Gerard, Edmond Rostand

Grandparents
  
Eugene Rostand, Angele Gayet, Louis Maurice Fortune

Similar People
  
Edmond Rostand, Rosemonde Gerard, Jean Rostand, Ernst Lubitsch, Samson Raphaelson

Maurice Rostand au théâtre


Maurice Rostand (May 26, 1891 – February 21, 1968) was a French author, the son of the noted poet and dramatist Edmond Rostand and the poet Rosemonde Gerard, and brother of the biologist Jean Rostand.

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Rostand was a writer of poems, novels, and plays. He was friends with Jean Cocteau and Lucien Daudet and was one of the noted homosexual personalities that frequented the salons during the period between the wars.

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In 1948, he published his memoirs, Confession d'un demi-siecle. He is interred in Passy Cemetery.

Plays

  • La Gloire, 1921
  • La Mort de Moliere, Theatre Sarah Bernhardt, 1922
  • Le Masque de fer, 1923
  • Le Secret du Sphinx, piece en 4 actes, 1924
  • Monsieur de Letoriere: Piece en Quatre Actes et Cinq Tableaux en Vers, 1931
  • Le proces d'Oscar Wilde, 1935
  • Some works were written in collaboration with his mother, Rosemonde Gerard.

    Other

  • Les Insomnies Poemes 1914–1923, 1923
  • L'homme que j'ai tue, 1925
  • Confession d'un demi-siecle, 1948
  • Sarah Bernhardt, 1950
  • Biography

  • Marcel Migeo: Les Rostand, Paris, Stock, 1973. About Edmond, Rosemonde, Jean and Maurice Rostand.
  • References

    Maurice Rostand Wikipedia