Maurice Rostand

Maurice Rostand, ca 1929

Maurice Rostand (1891 – February 21, 1968) was a French author, 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.

Works

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.

Other

• Les Insomnies Poemes 1914-1923, 1923
• L'homme que j'ai tué, 1925
• Confession d'un demi-siècle, 1948
• Sarah Bernhardt, 1950

Biography

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

External links

• Maurice Rostand at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Rostand, Maurice
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Date of birth	1883
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Date of death	1946
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