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Edmond Rostand, born on April 1, 1868 and died December 2, 1918, was a French dramatist whose
plays represent the final flowering of the 19th-century romantic tradition. His greatest work, Cyrano de Bergerac (1897),
was a dazzling popular success and remains a worldwide favorite to this day. One of his earlier works, The Romancers
(1894) has been adapted as a highly successful musical comedy. His other plays include L'Aiglon(The Eaglet, 1900),
a sentimental account of the life of Napoleon I's ill-starred son, and Chantecler(1910), in which all the characters
are animals. In 1910, Rostand became the youngest writer to be elected to the Academie Francaise. He died a victim of the
widespread influenze epidemic of 1918.
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