nones
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nones A. ninth day before the Ides XV;
B. the fourth of the day offices of the Church. XVIII. In A — (O)F. — L.
nōnœ, acc.
nōnās, fem. pl. of
nōnus ninth, f.
novem NINE; in B f.
NONE2 after
mattins,
lauds,
vespers.
Also
none2 third quarter of the day XVII; nones (sense B) XIX. — (O)F. — L.
nōna. cf.
NOON.
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Lloyd, Sue. The Man who was Cyrano: a Life of Edmond Rostand, Creator of "Cyrano de Bergerac.".(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; Lloyd, Sue. The Man who was Cyrano: A Life of Edmond Rostand, Creator of "Cyrano de Bergerac." Bloomington...072-3 This, the first full biography in English of Edmond Rostand, is a well researched and a compelling narrative...
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Essay; A Modern-Day Roxanne, In Love with Rostand's Hero
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/23/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...world, I alone shared a name with the heroine of Edmond Rostand's classic play. While I've gone on to Shaw...a 17th-century writer and soldier on whom Rostand's hero is based. Rostand, writing with all the fervor of the romantic...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1898:Pseudo Rostand
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 10/16/1998; 209 words
; ...1998 PARIS [The Herald says in an Editorial:] M. Edmond Rostand would seem to have reason for dissatisfaction with the...have produced a version that answers to the name of Rostand but shows the hand of the adapter. It is time that...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1903: Rostand Joins Academy
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 6/5/2003; 188 words
; ...large gathering for the official reception of a new member into the Academie Francaise as for the consecration of M. Edmond Rostand's ''immortality'' yesterday [June 4]. Everything contributed to excite the curiosity of the public: the...
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Stumbling toward ecstasy: Cyrano de Bergerac as comedy in Martin's Roxanne and Well's The Truth about Cats and Dogs
Magazine article from: Literature/Film Quarterly; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...have enjoyed three adaptations of Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac...fascinated by Cyrano's tale. Edmond Rostand found inspiration for his play...Two and a half centuries later, Edmond Rostand resurrected this hero by fictionalizing...
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The Arts: A two-hour standing ovation `Cyrano' was such a success that its creator was knighted during the play's premiere 100 years ago - and we are still moved by the man with the huge nose, writes Gilbert Adair
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 12/21/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...French biography of the dramatist Edmond Rostand, the chapter pertaining to the...way. In fact, a nerve-wracked Rostand had so little confidence in its...hour standing ovation, the same Rostand would have refused to change places...
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Cyrano de Bergerac Turns 100, as Fresh and Sassy as Ever
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 10/15/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...such an extraordinary triumph for Edmond Rostand, who was not yet 30, that in...actor Constant Coquelin, for whom Rostand wrote the play, it was a controversial...s outrageous ''Ubu Roi.'' Rostand's verse play, set in the swashbuckling...
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'Cyrano,' Gaining in the Translation
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/2/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Bergerac," written by someone named Edmond Rostand, with someone named Jose Ferrer...brilliancy, the lyric rapture of Rostand." For this Hamilton turned to...he has made the vivid spirit of Edmond Rostand accessible . . . to English...
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France's `Cyrano' Craze;The Grand Gallic Symbol, Back on Stage, Screen
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/5/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...Cyrano's creator, 29-year-old Edmond Rostand, could have led them in a march...The movie, which freely adapts Rostand's poetry and staging for the...scholars, Aziza refuses to accord Rostand or "Cyrano" a high place in French...
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Cyrano: A World Premiere Opera By David Dichiera, Libretto by Bernard Uzan Detroit Opera House, October 13 - 28, 2007.
PR Newswire; 1/4/2007; 700+ words
; ...ever major opera, is based on Edmond Rostand's celebrated play of 1897, Cyrano...great love story." "I have loved Rostand's Cyrano since my youth," commented...full of humanity coupled with Rostand's beautiful use of the French...
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Edmond Rostand
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Edmond Rostand , 1868-1918, French poet and dramatist. In 1890 appeared his first...Richard Mansfield, and, on the screen (1950), Jose Ferrer. In 1900 Rostand wrote L'Aiglon, whose central figure is the pathetic duke of Reichstadt...
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Rostand, Edmond Eugène Alexis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Rostand, Edmond Eugène Alexis (1868–...the frank sentimentality of its theme. Rostand's last play was Chantecler (1910...was left unfinished, but indicates how Rostand's undoubted talent might have matured...
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Rostand, Edmond
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Rostand, Edmond (1868–1918), playwright. The romantic French dramatist...Adams as star, but the production was a costly failure. Also, it was Rostand's Les Romantics that provided the basic plot for the long‐...
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Claude Carriere, from the play by Edmond Rostand; subtitles: Anthony Burgess...après l'oeuvre d'Edmond Rostand, Paris, 1990. Articles: Variety...this most recent telling of the Edmond Rostand classic have accomplished a most...
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Napoleon II
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the Invalides in Paris, where he now rests beside his father. The pitiful life of the "Eaglet" is the subject of Edmond Rostand's drama L'Aiglon. Bibliography: See biography by A. Castelot (tr. 1960).
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