Edmond Rostand: Why a Google Doodle celebrates the French poet and dramatist today
1. Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand was a neo-romanticist French poet and dramatist who is best known for his 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac.
2. Edmond was twenty-two years old when he married Rosemond Gerard, a poet, and gave her his first book, a collection of poems, as a wedding present.
3. Rostand is best known, though, for Cyrano de Bergerac, a play about a chivalrous swordsman with an oversized nose.

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