. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . Union of the Seine andJUame; the Huntsman Resting (called in French Berger Chasseur); Daphne Pursued by of these are now in the garden of the Tuileries;further, the statues of Julius Caesar and Louis XV inthe Louvre, and the Descent From the Cross in thechoir of Notre-Dame, Paris, one of his best are also statues by Coustou at Versailles andMarly. A good terra-cotta bust of him by his brotherGuillaume is in the Louvre
. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . Union of the Seine andJUame; the Huntsman Resting (called in French Berger Chasseur); Daphne Pursued by of these are now in the garden of the Tuileries;further, the statues of Julius Caesar and Louis XV inthe Louvre, and the Descent From the Cross in thechoir of Notre-Dame, Paris, one of his best are also statues by Coustou at Versailles andMarly. A good terra-cotta bust of him by his brotherGuillaume is in the Louvre. LuBKE, History of Sculpture, tr. Bunnett (London, 1878);Marquand and Frothingham, History of Sculpture (NewYork, 1886); Dilke, French Architects and Sculptors of theX VIII Century (London, 1900). M. L. Handley. Coutances, Diocese of (Constantiensis), com-prises the entire department of La Manche and is asuffragan of the Archbishopric of Rouen. It wasenlarged in 1802 by the addition of the formerDiocese of Avranches and of two archdeaconries fromthe Diocese of Bayeux; since 1854 its bishops haveheld the title of Bishop of Coutances and Cathedral and Town, Coutances Diocese op Coutances.—The catalogue of thebishops of Coutances, as it was made out about theend of the eleventh century, gives as the first bishopsSt. Ereptiolus and St. Exuperatus (fourth century).Leontianus, the first bishop historically known,attended the Council of Orleans in 511. Coutancescounted among its prelates Saint L6 (Lauto), promi-nent in the great councils of the middle of the sixthcentury; St. Rumpharius, apostle of Barfleur ( 586); St. Fr^mond (Frodomundus), who,assisted by Thierry III, founded a monastery and achurch in honour of the Blessed Virgin in 679 at Ham,near Valognes; Blessed Geoffrey de Montbray (1049-1093), friend of William the Conqueror, whoseepiscopate was signalized by the building of thecathedral of Coutances, to which purpose he devotedlarge sums of money that h
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