person
Benoit-Constant Coquelin
Coquelin
also: Коклен
French comic actor (1841-1909) of the Comedie-Francaise, one of the most famous performers of his day. Credited here with a definition about a self-denouncing madman purely for comic incongruity.
Reading notes
- Philosophical Definitions of Life §7 Coquelin
Benoit-Constant Coquelin, the celebrated French comic actor of the Comedie-Francaise -- credited here with a definition about a self-denouncing madman, the joke resting on his fame rather than any real quotation.