Rosemonde Gérard
Louise-Rose-Étiennette Gérard , known as Rosemonde Gérard (born April 5, 1866 in Paris , † July 8, 1953 ), was a French poet and playwright.
She was the granddaughter of the Napoleonic Marshal Étienne Maurice Gérard , from whose wife Rosemonde de Valence, her grandmother, she took her first name Rosemonde in her stage name. In the family she was called Dodette . Since she was orphaned at an early age, her godfather Leconte de Lisle and Alexandre Dumas the Younger took over her education as Conseil de Famille (family council). In 1890 she married the writer Edmond Rostand . From around 1900 she lived with him in Cambo-les-Bains in the Pyrenees near the Atlantic coast.
Today she is best known for her poem L'éternelle chanson (from the volume of poetry Les Pipeaux , Die Rohrpfeifen , 1890), which became known as the popular paraphrase for everlasting love at the beginning of the 20th century, with the lines:
Car, vois-tu, chaque jour je t'aime davantage,
Aujourd'hui plus qu'hier et bien moins que demain.
(Translation: Because, you see, every day I love you more, more today than yesterday and less than tomorrow. )
The text was set to music as a chanson by Emmanuel Chabrier . The jeweler from Lyon Alphonse Augis used the lines as an inscription on a medallion.
She and her husband wrote the play Un bon petit diable ( A Good Little Devil , 1913), which was filmed with Mary Pickford in 1914. She also appeared occasionally in the theater (for example in Cyrano de Bergerac by her husband Rostand as Roxane next to Sarah Bernhardt as Cyrano), wrote a comic opera La Marchande d'allumettes ( The Matchstick Seller ) with her son Maurice Rostand (music by Tiarko Richepin, 1914) and among other things a novel La Vie amoureuse de Madame de Genlis (which was also one of her ancestors).
Her son Jean Rostand was a biologist and writer.
She is buried in the Passy Cemetery next to her son Maurice (1891–1968), who was a well-known playwright (including about the trial of Oscar Wilde).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gérard, Rosemonde |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gérard, Louise-Rose-Étiennette |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 1953 |
| Place of death | Paris |