After the coup d'état of 2 December 1851, he confined himself to the duties of his pastorate.
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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 following the May 1849 election, won by the conservative Parti de l'Ordre.
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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.
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The son of Athanase Laurent Charles Coquerel, he studied theology at Geneva and at Strasbourg, and at an early age succeeded his uncle, C. A. Coquerel, as editor of Le Lien, a post which he held till 1870.
Athanase Josué Coquerel (1820–1875), son of Athanase Laurent Charles Coquerel