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NZ, ENRICO CORN (grain) COSENZA CORN (outgrowth of the skin) COSHOCTON CORNARO, CATERINA COSIN, JOHN CORNARO, LUIGI COSMAS (of Alexandria) CORNBRASH COSMAS (of Prague) CORNEILLE, PIERRE COSMATI CORNEILLE, THOMAS COSMIC CORNELIA COSMOGONY CORNELIUS COSMOPOLITAN CORNELIUS, CARL AUGUST PETER COSNE CORNELIUS, PETER VON COSSA, LUIGI CORNELL UNIVERSITY COSSA, PIETRO CORNET COSSACKS CORNETO TARQUINIA COSSIMBAZAR CORNICE COSTA, GIOVANNI CORNIFICIUS COSTA, LORENZO CORNING, ERASTUS COSTA, SIR MICHAEL ANDREW AGNUS CORNING COSTAKI, ANTHOPOULOS CORN LAWS COSTANZO, ANGELO DI CORN-SALAD COSTA RICA CORNU, MARIE ALFRED COSTELLO, DUDLEY CORNU COPIAE COSTER-MONGER CORNUS COSTS CORNUTUS, LUCIUS ANNAEUS COSTUME CORNWALL (city of Canada) COQUELIN, BENOIT CONSTANT (1841-1909), French actor, known as Coquelin _aine_, was born at Boulogne on the 23rd of January 1841. He was originally intended to follow his father's trade of baker (he was once called _un boulanger manque_ by a hostile critic), but his love of acting led him to the Conservatoire, where he entered Regnier's class in 1859. He won the first prize for comedy within a year, and made his debut on the 7th of December 1860 at the Comedie Francaise as the comic valet, Gros-Rene, in Moliere's _Depit amoureux_, but his first great success was as Figaro, in the following year. He was made _societaire_ in 1864, and during the next twenty-two years he created at the Francais the leading parts in forty-four new plays, including Theodore de Banville's _Gringoire_ (1867), Paul Ferrier's _Tabarin_ (1871), Emile Augier's _Paul Forestier_ (1871), _L'Etrangere_ (1876) by the younger Dumas, Charles Lomon's _Jean Dacier_ (1877), Edward Pailleron's _Le Monde ou l'on s'ennuie_ (1881), Erckmann 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
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