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Ernest Alexandre Honoré Coquelin (16 May 18488 February 1909) was a French actor. Also called Coquelin 
He died within days of his famous older brother Constant.
Cadet
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, to distinguish him from his brother, he was born at Boulogne
Boulogne-sur-Mer (; pcd, Boulonne-su-Mér; nl, Bonen; la, Gesoriacum or ''Bononia''), often called just Boulogne (, ), is a coastal city in Northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department of Pas-de-Calais. Boulogne lies on the ...
, and entered the Conservatoire
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in 1864.
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).
He died within days of his famous older brother Constant.
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1848 births 1909 deaths French male stage actors People from Boulogne-sur-Mer Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française {{france-stage-actor-stub