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duke of, a French prelate, nephew of the following, was born at Paris, September 15, 1664. He became successively princebishop of Metz, first almoner of the king, and member of the French Academy. Like his uncle, he displayed remarkable charity towards his diocesans; but he had a controversy with Rome, particularly on the bull Unigenitus. He bequeathed to the abbey of St. Germain. the celebrated library inherited by him from chancellor Seguier. Montfaucon gave a catalogue of the Greek manuscripts of the large collection, to a, great extent destroyed by a fire in 1793, the remains of which have been collected in the national library. Coislin died in, 1732, having published a Choix des Statuts Synodum of his predecessors in 1699: — Rituel (1713). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.; Biog. Universelle, s.v.