Maurice Rostand was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 author, the son of the noted poet and dramatist Edmond Rostand

Edmond Rostand

Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays provided an alternative to the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century...

 and the poet Rosemonde Gérard

Rosemonde Gérard

Louise-Rose-Étiennette Gérard, known as Rosemonde Gérard was a French poet and playwright. She was the wife of Edmond Rostand , and was a granddaughter of Étienne Maurice Gérard, who was a Marshal and a Prime Minister of France.Gérard is perhaps best known today as the author of the...

, and brother of the biologist Jean Rostand

Jean Rostand

Jean Rostand was a French biologist and philosopher.Active as an experimental biologist, Rostand became famous for his work as a science writer, as well as a philosopher and an activist...

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Rostand was a writer of poems, novels, and plays. He was friends with Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...

 http://www.jeancocteau.net/bio1_en.html and Lucien Daudet

Lucien Daudet

Lucien Daudet was a French writer, the son of Alphonse Daudet. Although a prolific novelist and painter, he was never really able to trump his father's greater reputation and is now primarily remembered for his ties to fellow novelist Marcel Proust...

 and was one of the noted homosexual personalities that frequented the salons

Salon (gathering)

A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine taste and increase their knowledge of the participants through conversation. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to...

 during the period between the wars.

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

Passy Cemetery

The Passy Cemetery is a famous cemetery located at 2, rue du Commandant Schlœsing in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.-History:...

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Plays

• La Gloire, 1921
• La Mort de Molière, Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt
  Sarah Bernhardt
  Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage and early film actress, and has been referred to as "the most famous actress the world has ever known". Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of France in the 1870s, and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas...
  
  , 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.

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