French playwright, whose most popular and successful work, Cyrano de Bergerac, revives in romantic guise the 17th century soldier and duelist. L'Aiglon is based on the life of Napoleon's son.

Edmond Eugne Alexis Rostand (1868 -1918) was a French poet and dramatist. Edmond Rostand's best-known work was Cyrano de Bergerac. In 1901, Rostand became the youngest writer to be elected to the Academie Francasie. Chantecter is a fantasy play about bird and animal life, with the characters being denizens of the farmyard and the woods.