COQUEREL, ATHANASE LAURENT CHARLES (1795-1868), French Protestant divine, was born in Paris on Aug. He received his early education from his aunt, Helen Maria Williams, an Englishwoman, author of the Letters from France. He studied at the Protestant seminary of Montauban. Coquerel became pastor of the Reformed Church in Paris, where he displayed liberal views on religion and education which caused some criticism. His defence of the University of Paris brought him membership of the consistory of the Legion of Honour. In 1841 appeared his Reponse to the Leben Jesu of Strauss. He sat as a moderate republican in the National Assembly of 1848, subsequently becoming a member of the Legislative Assembly. He supported the first ministry of Louis Napoleon, but after the coup d' etat of Dec. 2, 1851, he confined himself to the duties of his pastorate. He died in Paris on Jan. 1o, 1868. A large collec tion of his sermons was published in 8 vols. between 1819 and 1852. Other works were Biographie sacree (1825-26) ; Histoire sainte et analyse de la Bible (1839) ; Orthodoxie moderne (1842) ; Christologie (1858), etc.