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