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1881 · 032552 — Boston: Roberts Brothers 1881. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 63 Pp 2 Pp Ads At Rear. Red Cloth Printed In Black Green And White Endpapers. First American Printing 1981 Date On Title Page. Light Wear Lettering Strong Three Tiny Frays At Ends Of Spine Covers With Tiny Flecks To Color. Ownership Signature Of Andy Francisco 1866-1947; From Estate Of Artist J Bond Francisco's Nephew Jack Okey So Probably A Relative. Per Wikipedia Benoît-Constant Coquelin 1841 - 1909 Known As Coquelin Aîné "Coquelin The Elder" Was A French Actor "One Of The Greatest Theatrical Figures Of The Age." Coquelin Was Born In Boulogne-Sur-Mer Pas-De-Calais. He Was Originally Intended To Follow His Father's Trade Of Baker He Was Once Called "Un Boulanger Manqué" - "A Failed Baker" - By A Hostile Critic But His Love Of Acting Led Him To The Conservatoire Where He Entered Régnier's Class In 1859. He Won The First Prize For Comedy Within A Year And Made His Début On 7 December 1860 At The Comédie-Française As The Comic Valet Gros-René In Molière's Le Dépit Amoureux But His First Great Success Was As Figaro In The Barber Of Seville In The Following Year. It Was An Honour For Coquelin To Be A Part Of The Comédie-Française At Such A Young Age. This Company Had Already Been In Existence For Around 150 Years. He Was Made Sociétaire In 1864. There Were 21 34 Shares And They Were Divided Among The Lead Actors Known As Sociétaires. The Sociétaires Co-Manage Choose Plays And Share Profits. When There Was An Opening Caused By Retirement Resignation Or Death It Was Filled By A Member Of The Pensionnaires. And Just Four Years After Joining The Comédie-Française Coquelin Became One Of The Elite Sociétaires. During The Next Twenty-Two Years He Created The Leading Roles In Forty-Four New Plays At The Comédie Française Including Théodore De Banville's Gringoire 1867 Paul Ferrier's Tabarin 1871 Émile Augier's Paul Forestier 1871 L'étrangère 1876 By The Younger Dumas Charles Lomon's Jean Dacier 1877 Édouard Pailleron's Le Monde Où L'on S'ennuie 1881 Erckmann's And Chatrian's Les Rantzau 1884. In Consequence Of A Dispute With The Authorities Over The Question Of His Right To Make Provincial Tours In France He Resigned In 1886. Three Years Later However The Breach Was Healed; And After A Successful Series Of Tours In Europe And The United States He Rejoined The Comédie-Française As Pensionnaire In 1890. During His Time Away From The Comédie He Wrote His Book Art And The Actor. It Was During This Period That He Took The Part Of Labussière In The Production Of Victorien Sardou's Thermidor Which Was Banned By The Government After Three Performances. In 1892 He Broke Definitively With The Comédie-Française And Toured For Some Time Through The Capitals Of Europe With A Company Of His Own; In New York For Instance He Performed At Abbey's Theatre In 1894 Playing The Lead In Tartuffe His Son Jean Played Orgon And Mascarille In Les Précieuses Ridicules.3 In 1895 He Joined The Renaissance Theatre In Paris And Played There Until He Became Director Of The Théâtre De La Porte Saint-Martin In 1897. Here He Won Successes In Edmond Rostand's Cyrano De Bergerac 1897 Which He Repeated In The Summer Of 1898 At The Lyceum Theatre London Émile Bergerat's Plus Que Reine 1899 Catulle Mendès's Scarron 1905 And Alfred Capus And Lucien Descaves' L'attentat 1906. In 1900 Coquelin Toured In America With Sarah Bernhardt Appeared At Broadway's Garden Theatre In A Production Of Cyrano De Bergerac Bernhardt Played Roxane. He Made His Only Film The Duel Scene From Cyrano De Bergerac With Sound Recording On Phonograph Cylinder. The Film Is Thought To Be The First Ever Made With Both Color And Sound. On Their Return To France He Continued With His Old Colleague To Appear In L'aiglon At The Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt. He Was Rehearsing For The Creation Of The Title Role In Rostand's Chantecler Which He Was To Produce When He Died Suddenly In Paris In 1909. <br/> <br/> Roberts Brothers hardcover