Ernest Alexandre Honoré Coquelin
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Ernest Alexandre Honoré Coquelin (16Template:NbspMay 1848Template:Snd8Template:NbspFebruary 1909), also called Coquelin cadet, using the French word cadet, which is used to identify the younger of two brothers, to distinguish him from his brother Benoît-Constant Coquelin, was a French actor.
He was born at Boulogne. He entered the Conservatoire in 1864.<ref name="EB1911">{{#if: |
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}}{{#ifeq: ||}}</ref> 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).<ref name="EB1911"/>
He died within days of his famous older brother Constant.