Le Catholicisme et le protestantisme considérés dans leur origine et leur développement (1864); Libres études, and La Conscience et la foi (1867).
COQUEREL, ATHANASE LAURENT CHARLES (1795–1868), French Protestant divine, was born in Paris on the 17th of August 1795. He received his early education from his aunt, Helen Maria Williams, an Englishwoman, who at the close of the 18th century gained a reputation by various translations and by her Letters from France. He completed his theological studies at the Protestant seminary of Montauban, and in 1816 was
ordained minister. In 1817 he was invited to become pastor
of the chapel of St Paul at Jersey, but he declined, being unwilling
to subscribe to the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England.
During the following twelve years he resided in Holland, and
preached before Calvinistic congregations at Amsterdam,
Leiden and Utrecht. In 1830, at the suggestion of Baron Georges
de Cuvier, then minister of Protestant worship, Coquerel was
called to Paris as pastor of the Reformed Church. In the course
of 1833 he was chosen a member of the consistory, and rapidly
acquired the reputation of a great pulpit orator, but his liberal
views brought him into antagonism with the rigid Calvinists.
He took a warm interest in all matters of education, and distinguished
himself so much by his defence of the university of
Paris against a sharp attack, that in 1835 he was chosen a
member of the consistory of the Legion of Honour. In 1841
appeared his Réponse to the Leben Jesu of Strauss. After the
revolution of February 1848, Coquerel was elected a member
of the National Assembly, where he sat as a moderate republican,
subsequently becoming a member of the Legislative Assembly.
He supported the first ministry of Louis Napoleon, and gave
his vote in favour of the expedition to Rome and the restoration
of the temporal power of the pope. After the coup d’état of the
2nd of December 1851, he confined himself to the duties of his
pastorate. He was a prolific writer, as well as a popular and
eloquent speaker. He died at Paris on the 10th of January 1868.
A large collection of his sermons was published in 8 vols. between
1819 and 1852. Other works were Biographie sacrée (1825–1826); Histoire sainte et analyse de la Bible (1839); Orthodoxie moderne
(1842); Christologie (1858), &c.
His brother, Charles Augustin Coquerel (1797–1851), was the author of a work on English literature (1828), an Essai sur l’histoire générale du christianisme (1828) and a Histoire des églises du désert, depuis la revocation de l’édit de Nantes (1841). A liberal in his views, he was the founder and editor of the Annales protestantes, Le Lien, and the Revue protestante.
COQUES (or Cocx), GONZALEZ (1614–1684), Flemish painter, son of Pieter Willemsen Cocx, a respectable Flemish citizen, and not, as his name might imply, a Spaniard, was born at Antwerp. At the age of twelve he entered the house of Pieter, the son of
“Hell” Breughel, an obscure portrait painter, and at the expiration of his time as an apprentice became a journeyman in the workshop of David Ryckaert the second, under whom he made accurate studies of still life. At twenty-six he matriculated
in the gild of St Luke; he then married Ryckaert’s
daughter, and in 1653 joined the literary and dramatic club
known as the “Retorijkerkamer.” After having been made
president of his gild in 1665, and in 1671 painter in ordinary to
Count Monterey, governor-general of the Low Countries, he
married again in 1674, and died full of honours in his native
place. One of his canvases in the gallery at the Hague represents
a suite of rooms hung with pictures, in which the artist himself
may be seen at a table with his wife and two children, surrounded
by masterpieces composed and signed by several contemporaries.
Partnership in painting was common amongst the small masters
of the Antwerp school; and it has been truly said of Coques
that he employed Jacob von Arthois for landscapes, Ghering
and van Ehrenberg for architectural backgrounds, Steenwijck
the younger for rooms, and Pieter Gysels for still life and flowers;
but the model upon which Coques formed himself was Van Dyck,
whose sparkling touch and refined manner he imitated with great
success. He never ventured beyond the “cabinet,” but in this
limited field the family groups of his middle time are full of life,
brilliant from the sheen of costly dress and sparkling play of
light and shade, combined with finished execution and enamelled
surface.
COQUET (pronounced Cócket), a river of Northumberland, draining a beautiful valley about 40 m. in length. It rises in
the Cheviot Hills. Following a course generally easterly, but
greatly winding, it passes Harbottle, near which relics of the Stone
Age are seen, and Holystone, where it is recorded that Bishop
Paulinus baptized a great body of Northumbrians in the year
627. Several earthworks crown hills above this part of the valley,
and at Cartington, Fosson and Whitton are relics of medieval
border fortifications. The small town of Rothbury is beautifully
situated beneath the ragged Simonside Hills. The river dashes
through a narrow gully called the Thrum, and then passes Brinkburn
priory, of which the fine Transitional Norman church was
restored to use in 1858, while there are fragments of the monastic
buildings. This was an Augustinian foundation of the time of
Henry I. The dale continues well wooded and very beautiful
until Warkworth is reached, with its fine castle and remarkable hermitage. A short distance below this the Coquet has its mouth
in Alnwick Bay (North Sea), with the small port of Amble on the
south bank, and Coquet Island a mile out to sea. The river is
frequented by sportsmen for salmon and trout fishing. No
important tributary is received, and the drainage area does not exceed 240 sq. m.
COQUET (pronounced co-kétte), to simulate the arts of love-making, generally from motives of personal vanity, to flirt; in a figurative sense, to trifle or dilly-dally with anything. The word is derived from the French coqueter, which originally means, “to strut about like a cock-bird,” i.e. when it desires to attract the hens. The French substantive coquet, in the sense of “beau” or “lady-killer,” was formerly commonly used in English; but the feminine form, coquette, now practically alone survives, in the
sense of a woman who gratifies her vanity by using her powers of attraction in a frivolous or inconstant fashion. Hence “to coquet,” the original and more correct form, has come frequently to be written “to coquette.” Coquetry (Fr. coquetterie), primarily the art of the coquette, is used figuratively of any
dilly-dallying or “coquetting” and, by transference of idea, of any superficial qualities of attraction in persons or things. “Coquet” is still also occasionally used adjectivally, but the more usual form is “coquettish”; e.g. we speak of a “coquettish manner,” or a “coquettish hat.” The crested humming-birds of the genus Lophornis are known as coquettes
(Fr. coquets).
COQUIMBO, an important city and port of the province and department of Coquimbo, Chile, in 29° 57′ 4″ S., 71° 21′ 12″ W. Pop. (1895) 7322. The railway connexions are with Ovalle to
the S., and Vicuña (or Elqui) to the E., but the proposed extension
northward of Chile’s longitudinal system would bring
Coquimbo into direct communication with Santiago. The city
has a good well-sheltered harbour, reputed the best in northern
Chile, and is the port of La Serena, the provincial capital, 9 m.
distant, with which it is connected by rail. There are large
copper-smelting establishments in the city, which exports a
very large amount of copper, some gold and silver, and cattle
and hay to the more northern provinces.
The province of Coquimbo, which lies between those of Aconcagua and Atacama and extends from the Pacific inland to the Argentine frontier, has an area of 13,461 sq. m. (official estimate) and a population (1895) of 160,898. It is less arid than the province of Atacama, the surface near the coast being broken by well-watered river valleys, which produce alfalfa, and pasture cattle for export. Near the mountains grapes are grown, from which wine of a good quality is made. The mineral resources include extensive deposits of copper, and some less important mines of gold and silver. The climate is dry and healthy, and there are occasional rains. Several rivers, the largest of which is the Coquimbo (or Elqui) with a length of 125 m., cross the province from the mountains. The capital is La Serena, and the principal cities are Coquimbo, Ovalle (pop. 5565), and Illapel (3170).
