Cosme de Villiers

Cosme de Villiers de Saint Étienne (1683–1758) was a French Carmelite bibliographer.

Life

Born in Saint-Denis, near Paris, he joined the Carmelite order and from 1709 to 1727 was lecturer in philosophy or theology in various convents of the order, particularly Nantes, Hennebont, and Saint-Pol-de-Léon. In 1727, Villiers began to preach. He later became a preacher in Orléans, where he died.

Works

He was the author of the Bibliotheca carmelitana (2 vols, Orleans, 1752).

References

Sources

• Dictionnaire historique et bibliographique, vol. 2 (Paris, 1822), 64.
• Dictionnaire historique; ou, Biographie universelle classique, vol. 6 (Paris, 1829), 3239.