L'Aiglon (Annotated)

Edmond Rostand's *L'Aiglon* (1900) is a six-act verse drama centered on Napoleon II, the "Eaglet," imprisoned by dynastic expectations and political calculation in the Viennese court. Reconstructing the young prince's thwarted longing for France, the play moves between historical pageantry, intimate psychological conflict, and elegiac political reflection. Rostand's supple alexandrines, rhetorical...