Cosme de Villiers

Cosme de Villiers de Saint Étienne
Order Carmelite
Personal
Nationality French
Born 1683
Saint-Denis
Died 1758
Orléans
Religious career
Works Bibliotheca carmelitana (1752)

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. He later became a preacher in Orléans, where he died.

Works

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

Sources

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