Coquelin
BENOÎT CONSTANT, a French actor; born in Boulogne, Jan. 23, 1841; was admitted to the Conservatoire CORAL dy, made his début at the Comédie Française, Dec. 7, 1860, at Grosin 1859; and having gained the second prize for comedy , 1888 in South America and the United over twenty-two years he played with unbroken success at the Théâtre Français, both in classical pieces and in rôles created by himself; in the broader aspects of comedy, standing without a rival. He left the Théâtre Français in 1886, and appeared in 1887 in London, in 1888 in South America and the United States. He wrote (with Coquelin the younger) "The Art of Monologue." He died Jan. 26, 1909.