- His play, "Cyrano De Bergerac," at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 1973 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Production.
- In his play "Cyrano de Bergerac", Rostand borrows the character of the Musketeer, D'Artagnan, the hero of Alexandre Dumas' novels "The Three Musketeers", "Twenty Years Later" and "The Viscount of Bragelonne". This has led to even more cross-referencing in film adaptations. In fact, all four Musketeers have at various times been played by a veteran Cyrano. José Ferrer made a career out of playing Cyrano, including in Cyrano et d'Artagnan (1964), in which D'Artagnan is played by Jean-Pierre Cassel. Cassel later played Cyrano in The Return of the Musketeers (1989), which was based on "Twenty Years Later". Ferrer would later play Athos in The Fifth Musketeer (1979), based on "The Viscount of Bragelonne". Gérard Depardieu, who also played Cyrano, went on to play the Musketeer Porthos in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), also based on The "Vicomte of Bragelonne". Richard Chamberlain, who played Aramis in The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (1974) and The Return of the Musketeers (1989), played Cyrano on stage in 1973.
- Father of biologist and writer, Jean Rostand.
- Father of Maurice Rostand.
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