Coquerel, ATHANASE LAURENT CHARLES

Coquerel, ATHANASE LAURENT CHARLES, an eloquent minister of the French Reformed Church, was born in Paris in 1795. He studied theology at Montauban, and became in 1818 minister of the French church in Amsterdam, but came to Paris in 1830, on the invitation of Cuvier, and preached here until his death, 20th January 1868. In 1848 he was elected a delegate to the National Assembly by the department of the Seine. His writings, all marked by earnestness and liberal sympathies, include a reply to Strauss (1841), six collections of sermons (1842-56), and Christologie (1858).—His son, ATHANASE JOSUÉ LAURENT, also a Protestant pastor of liberal tendencies, was born at Amsterdam in 1820. A still more 'advanced' theologian than his father, he found himself at variance with the Protestant Consistory and the predominating influence of Guizot in his somewhat rigidly orthodox old age. He died at Fismes, in Marne, 25th July 1875. Among his works were an edition of Voltaire's letters on toleration (1863), and Jean Calas et sa Famille (1857).