Edmond ROSTAND. Signed autograph poem. Chantecler.
I think of light and not of glory. Singing is my way of fighting and believing; And if of all songs my song is the proudest, It is because I sing clearly so that it is clear!
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I think of light and not of glory. Singing is my way of fighting and believing; And if of all songs my song is the proudest, It is because I sing clearly so that it is clear!
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Edmond ROSTAND (1868.1918)
Signed autograph poem.
An oblong octavo page laminated on strong brown cardboard.
Slnd. Slightly toned down ink.
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Cyrano's father copies a quatrain in Alexandrines taken from Act II of Chantecler.
I think of light and not of glory.
Singing is my way of fighting and believing;
And if of all songs my song is the proudest,
It’s because I sing clearly so that it’s clear!
Chantecler (Act II)
Edmond Rostand.
Chantecler, the play in four acts written by Rostand, was created at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin on February 7, 1910.