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Rostand may refer to: People * André Rostand, Malagasy politician * Aura Rostand (1899–1957), Nicaraguan poet * Edmond Rostand (1868–1918), French poet and dramatist * Jean Rostand (1894–1977), French biologist and philosopher, son of Edmond * Maurice Rostand (1883–1946), French playwright, son of Edmond * Rostand Melaping (born 1978), Cameroonian judoka Places * Rostand Island, an island in Antarctica named for Jean Rostand See also *Rostagnus Rostagnus is a Latinization of a Germanic given name common in the Middle Ages, especially in Occitania. It derives from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "stone". It is attested in the Old High German form Hruodstein.Thorvald Forssner, ''Continental-Ge ...
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André Rostand
André Rostand is a Madagascar, Malagasy politician. He was a member of the National Assembly (Madagascar), National Assembly of Madagascar, he was elected as a member of the Tiako I Madagasikara party in the 2007 Malagasy parliamentary elections. He represents the constituency of Mahabo. He was also a candidat in 2013 Malagasy general elections and for IRD in 2019 but both times he failed to be elected with 13.35% and 24,43% of votes. References Profile on National Assembly site
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Aura Rostand
Aura Rostand was the pen name for Nicaraguan poet Maria de la Selva (1899–1957). She was the sister of poet Salomón de la Selva and artist Roberto de la Selva. Rostand, a trained teacher, published her first poem aged eighteen. She travelled throughout Latin America and the United States while publishing poetry. Rostand also wrote journalistic works for Mexican and Costa Rican publications. In 1927, she was appointed Nicaraguan counsel to Detroit, Michigan. She was the first Nicaraguan women to hold a diplomatic position. She held that post until 1929. While in Detroit Rostand had a miscarriage and her brother, Salomón, gave birth to a son called Salomoncito. The circumstances around this, as well as analysis of correspondence between the siblings, led literary historian Steven White to question whether Salomoncito was a child of an incestuous relationship between the siblings. Rostand left the United States and moved to Bluefields, Nicaragua. She stayed there until 1939 ...
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Edmond Rostand
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (, , ; 1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He 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''. Early life Rostand was born in Marseille, France, into a wealthy and cultured Provençal family. His father 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. Career 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.
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Jean Rostand
Jean Edmond Cyrus Rostand (30 October 1894, Paris – 4 September 1977, Ville-d'Avray) was a French biologist, historian of science, and philosopher. Active as an experimental biologist, Rostand became famous for his work as a science writer, as well as a philosopher and an activist. His scientific work covered a variety of biological fields such as amphibian embryology, parthenogenesis and teratogeny, while his literary output extended into popular science, history of science and philosophy. His work in the area of cryogenics gave the idea of cryonics to Robert Ettinger. He took an interest in ethics and morality in biology and wrote against pseudoscience, the use of science for war, wrote against racism and supported human equality and freedom. Rostand Island in Antarctica is named after him. Biography Rostand was born in Paris to playwright Edmond Rostand and poet Rosemonde Gérard. He was the brother of novelist and playwright Maurice Rostand. His paternal grandfather ...
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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. In 1948, he published his memoirs, ''Confession d'un demi-siècle''. He is interred in Passy Cemetery Passy Cemetery (french: Cimetière de Passy) is a small cemetery in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. History The current cemetery replaced the old cemetery (''l'ancien cimetière communal de Passy'', located on Rue Lekain), .... 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 Ci ...
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Rostand Melaping
Rostand Barry Melaping Tchassem (born 14 August 1978) is a Cameroonian judo is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponi ...ka. Achievements References * 1978 births Living people Cameroonian male judoka Judoka at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic judoka for Cameroon Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Cameroon Judoka at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in judo 20th-century Cameroonian people 21st-century Cameroonian people Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games {{Cameroon-judo-bio-stub ...
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Rostand Island
Rostand Island is a rocky island 400 m long and 200 m south-east of Petrel Island in the Geologie Archipelago of Antarctica. It was charted in 1951 by the French Antarctic Expedition and named by them for Jean Rostand, noted French biologist. It is the site of the rock dome Tour de Pise. Antarctic Specially Protected Area A site cluster in the heart of the Géologie Archipelago, south and east, and in the immediate vicinity, of Petrel Island and Dumont d'Urville Station, comprises Rostand, Le Mauguen, Claude Bernard and Lamarck Islands, Bon Docteur Nunatak, and a breeding site of emperor penguins on the intervening sea ice. The site is protected under the Antarctic Treaty System as Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) No.120. It was designated as such because it contains representative examples of terrestrial Antarctic ecosystems. Apart from the emperor penguin colony, the only one of about 30 in Antarctica that lies close to a permanent research statio ...
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