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Maurice Rostand around 1929
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Paris, France |
26 May 1891
Died | 21 February 1968 Ville-d'Avray, France |
(aged 76)
Occupation | Novelist, dramatist, poet |
Nationality | French |
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Maurice Rostand (26 May 1891 – 21 February 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 and Lucien Daudet and was one of the noted homosexual personalities who 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.
Some works were written in collaboration with his mother, Rosemonde Gérard.