Ernest Alexandre Honoré Coquelin (16 May 1848 – 8 February 1909) was a French actor. Also called Coquelin Cadet, to distinguish him from his brother, he was born at Boulogne, and entered the Conservatoire in 1864.[1]
He graduated with the first prize in comedy and made his debut in 1867 at the Odéon. The next year he appeared with his brother at the Théâtre Français and became a sociétaire in 1879. He played a great many parts, in both the classic and the modern repertoire, and also had much success in reciting monologues of his own composition. He wrote Le Livre des convalescents (1880), Le Monologue moderne (1881), Fairiboles (1882), Le Rire (1887), Pirouettes (1888).[1]
Coquelin appears in a fashionable crowd in the Bois de Boulogne drawn by Guth, 1897
He died within days of his famous older brother Constant.
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^ abOne or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Coquelin, Benoît Constant s.v. Ernest Alexandre Honoré Coquelin". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 129.
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