People know light, entertaining works, particularly
Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), of French playwright
Edmond Rostand.
Neo-romanticism associates poet and dramatist Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand. His romantic plays provided an alternative to the popular naturalistic theatre during the late 19th century. People adapted "
Les Romanesques" as the highly successful musical comedy "
The Fantasticks."
The Académie Française elected this youngest writer.
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