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25-818: In 1900, Edmond Rostand , writer of the play Cyrano de Bergerac , came to Cambo-les-Bains because of his pulmonary disease. He was taken by the area and in time bought some land and had a house built. It was completed in 1906. His house, the Villa Arnaga, is now a heritage site and a museum devoted to Rostand's life and Basque architecture and crafts. The Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz died in Cambo-les-Bains in 1909 as well as another significant Spanish composer, Sebastián Durón , who died there in 1716. The French orientalist Jean Sauvaget died in Cambo in 1950. Musical instrument inventor Georges Jenny , who devised

50-509: A three-act play, also in verse, as are all Rostand's plays. He considered himself a poet, whether writing plays or poetry. The resulting play, Les Romanesques , was produced at the Théâtre François on 21 May 1894. It was a great success and was the start of his career as a dramatist. This play would be adapted in 1960 by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt into the long-running American musical The Fantasticks . Rostand's next play

75-541: A villa, Arnaga (now a Rostand museum) and worked on his next play, one for Constant Coquelin this time, Chantecler . Produced in February 1910, it was awaited with an interest, enhanced by considerable delay in the production, which affected the enthusiasm of its reception. Nor did the Parisian audience enjoy the caricature of salon life in the third act. Since Constant Coquelin had died during rehearsals, Lucien Guitry

100-482: Is associated with neo-romanticism and is known best for his 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac . Rostand's romantic plays contrasted with the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century. Another of Rostand's works, Les Romanesques (1894), was adapted to the 1960 musical comedy The Fantasticks . Rostand was born in Marseille , France, into a wealthy and cultured Provençal family. His father

125-540: The Ondioline , died in Cambo-les-Bains in 1975. Mixel Labéguerie, a doctor and key figure in Basque culture and politics after World War II lived in Cambo. He was elected mayor of the town for three terms as of 1965, and most notably he is credited as the father figure of the 1960s Basque musical revival . He was also a founding member of the Basque nationalist movement Embata. In 1980, his memorial service held in Cambo

150-640: The Schönbrunn Palace . L'Aiglon , a verse drama in six acts, was produced (15 March 1900) by Sarah Bernhardt at her own theatre, she herself performing the trouser role of the Duke of Reichstadt. In 1901, Rostand became the youngest writer ever to be elected to the Académie française . He relocated to Cambo-les-bains, in the Basque Pyrenees, in 1903 for health reasons. Here he built himself

175-605: The 1900s, Rostand came to live in the Villa Arnaga in Cambo-les-Bains in the French Basque Country , seeking a cure for his pleurisy . The house is now a heritage site and a museum of Rostand's life and Basque architecture and crafts. Rostand died in 1918, a victim of the flu pandemic , and is buried in the Cimetière de Marseille. Jaufre Rudel Jaufre Rudel ( Jaufré in modern Occitan )

200-444: The basis for his 1895 verse drama La Princesse Lointaine , but reassigned the female lead from Hodierna to her jilted daughter Melisende , played by Sarah Bernhardt . However, there are older mentions of Rudel loving Melisende, such as Frederic Mistral 's 1878 Provençal dictionary Lou Tresor dóu Felibrige which states (translation): "Mélisende, Mélissande or Mélissène, countess of Tripoli, daughter of Aimeri de Lusignan, loved by

225-405: The composer quickly set three of his poems (and two of hers) to music; the following year the two collaborated on À la musique for the house-warming of a mutual friend. In 1890, Rostand published a volume of poems called Les Musardises . The same year he offered a one-act Pierrot play in verse to the director of the Théâtre François. This gave him the opportunity to write for the state theatre

250-418: The life in his face was shed. The sharp tears fell through her hair, and stung Once, and her close lips touched him and clung Once, and grew one with his lips for a space; And so drew back, and the man was dead. Sir Nizamat Jung Bahadur , of Hyderabad , also wrote an epic poem on the subject, Rudel of Blaye , in 1926. The French dramatist Edmond Rostand took the legend of Rudel and Hodierna as

275-472: The play was not particularly successful. When Bernhardt performed it in London later the same year, it received a bad review from George Bernard Shaw but this was not surprising considering Shaw's bias for realism. Rambaldo di Vaqueiras: I Monferrato , 1922 1922 verse drama by Nino Berrini is based on La Princesse Lointaine . Bernhardt, undeterred, asked Rostand to write another play for her. She created

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300-616: The present day, four of them with music. His composition Lanquan li jorn is thought to be the model for the Minnesinger Walther von der Vogelweide 's crusade song Allerest lebe ich mir werde ( Palästinalied ). Nineteenth-century Romanticism found his legend irresistible. It was the subject of poems by Ludwig Uhland , Heinrich Heine , Robert Browning ( Rudel to the Lady of Tripoli ) and Giosué Carducci ( Jaufré Rudel ). Algernon Charles Swinburne returned several times to

325-576: The role of Photine in La Samaritaine (Theatre de la Renaissance, 14 April 1897), a Biblical drama in three scenes adapted from the gospel story of the woman of Samaria. This play was more successful and became part of Sarah Bernhardt's repertoire. Rostand felt satisfied that he had proven to the public that he was something more than a writer of comedies. The production of his heroic comedy Cyrano de Bergerac (28 December 1897, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin), with Benoît-Constant Coquelin in

350-469: The sea, probably on the Second Crusade in 1147. Probably he was the son of Girard, also castellan of Blaye, and who was titled "prince" in an 1106 charter. Girard's father was the first to carry the title, being called princeps Blaviensis as early as 1090. During his father's lifetime the suzerainty of Blaye was disputed between the counts of Poitou and the counts of Angoulême . Shortly after

375-848: The story in his poetry, in The Triumph of Time , The Death of Rudel and the now-lost Rudel in Paradise (also titled The Golden House ). In The Triumph of Time , he summarises the legend: There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and ruin and gold There shone one woman, and none but she. And finding life for her love's sake fail, Being fain to see her, he bade set sail, Touched land, and saw her as life grew cold, And praised God, seeing; and so died he. Died, praising God for his gift and grace: For she bowed down to him weeping, and said "Live"; and her tears were shed on his face Or ever

400-494: The succession of William VIII of Poitou , who had inherited it from his father, Blaye was taken by Wulgrin II of Angoulême , who probably vested Jaufre with it. According to one hypothesis, based on flimsy evidence, Wulgrin was Jaufre's father. According to his legendary vida , or fictionalised biography, he was inspired to go on crusade upon hearing from returning pilgrims of the beauty of Countess Hodierna of Tripoli , and that she

425-468: The title role, was a triumph. The first production lasted for more than 300 consecutive nights. No such enthusiasm for a drama in verse had been known since the time of Hugo 's Hernani . The play was quickly translated into English , German , Russian and other European languages. Cyrano de Bergerac had been a boyhood hero of Rostand, who loved his idealism and courage. He had also thoroughly researched French 17th-century history. The play L'Aiglon

450-518: The world. When he died prematurely at fifty years old, Rostand was still writing plays. "La Dernière Nuit de Don Juan" was performed posthumously in 1922. There were two unfinished and unpublished plays – Yorick and Les Petites Manies . Rostand was married to the poet and playwright Rosemonde-Étiennette Gérard who, in 1890, published Les Pipeaux : a volume of verse commended by the Academy. The couple had two sons, Jean and Maurice . During

475-808: Was an economist, a poet who translated and edited the works of Catullus , and a member of the Marseille Academy and the Institut de France . Rostand studied literature, history, and philosophy at the Collège Stanislas in Paris, France. When Rostand was twenty years old, his first play, a one-act comedy, Le Gant rouge , was performed at the Cluny Theatre , 24 August 1888, but it was almost unnoticed. He and his fiancée Rosemonde Gérard became friends with Emmanuel Chabrier in 1889, and

500-415: Was attended by 4,000 people. This Pyrénées-Atlantiques geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Edmond Rostand Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand ( UK : / ˈ r ɒ s t ɒ̃ / , US : / r ɔː ˈ s t ɒ̃ , ˈ r ɒ s t æ n d / , French: [ɛdmɔ̃ ʁɔstɑ̃] ; 1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He

525-559: Was his amor de lonh , his far-off love. The legend claims that he fell sick on the journey and was brought ashore in Tripoli a dying man. Countess Hodierna is said to have come down from her castle on hearing the news, and Rudel died in her arms. This romantic but unlikely story seems to have been derived from the enigmatic nature of Rudel's verse and his presumed death on the Second Crusade. Seven of Rudel's poems have survived to

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550-416: Was in the title role and Mme. Simone played the part of the pheasant. Chantecler is a cockerel and the characters are birds and animals. "Chantecler" is the great play of Rostand's maturity, expressing Rostand's own deepest feelings as a poet and idealist. The Romancers one act play is one of Edmond Rostand's most famous plays. This play is found to be read for study in the courses of many universities of

575-419: Was the prince of Blaye ( Princes de Blaia ) and a troubadour of the early- to mid-12th century, who probably died during the Second Crusade , in or after 1147. He is noted for developing the theme of "love from afar" ( amor de lonh or amour de loin ) in his songs. Very little is known about his life, but a reference to him in a contemporary song by Marcabru describes him as being oltra mar —across

600-476: Was written for Sarah Bernhardt . La Princesse Lointaine was based on the story of the 12th-century troubadour Jaufre Rudel and his love for Hodierna of Jerusalem (who is the archetypal princesse lointaine character). This idealistic play opened on 5 April 1895, at the Théâtre de la Renaissance . The part of Melisandre (based on Hodierna's daughter Melisende of Tripoli ) was created by Sarah Bernhardt but

625-540: Was written for Sarah Bernhardt to perform during the Exposition Universelle in Paris. A patriotic subject was required, and Rostand chose a subject from Napoleonic history, suggested probably by Henri Welschinger 's Roi de Rome, 1811–32 (1897), which contained much new information about the unhappy life of the Duke of Reichstadt , son of Napoleon I, and Marie Louise, surveilled by agents of Metternich at

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