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Cosme de Villiers

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Order
  
Carmelite

Died
  
1758 Orleans

Nationality
  
French

Name
  
Cosme Villiers

Works
  
Bibliotheca carmelitana (1752)

Cosme de Villiers de Saint Etienne (1683-1758) was a French Carmelite bibliographer.

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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-Leon. He later became a preacher in Orleans, where he died.

Works

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

References

Cosme de Villiers Wikipedia