Coutances, a town in the French department of La Manche, 5 miles from the English Channel, and 57 S. of Cherbourg by rail. It stands on a hill crowned by the cathedral (dating from the 13th century), one of the finest specimens of ecclesiastical architecture in the Early Pointed style in Normandy. Pop. 8108.
Coutances
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 529
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