Maurice Rostand

Maurice Rostand (26 May 1891 – 21 February 1968) was a French author, the son of the 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 homosexual personalities who frequented the salons during the period between the wars. Rostand was defined as a pacifist and a leftist whose ideas bore him the hate of the far-right press, which mocked his homosexuality, particularly L'Action française and Émile Buré's L'Ordre.

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.