Gabriel Villar

French clergyman and politician

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Gabriel Villar
Constitutional bishop of Laval
Installed	1791
Term ended	1814
Orders
Consecration	22 May 1791^[1] by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel
Personal details
Born	(1748-12-13)13 December 1748 Toulouse
Died	26 August 1826(1826-08-26) (aged 77) Paris

Noël-Gabriel-Luce Villar (13 December 1748, Toulouse – 26 August 1826)^[2] was a French clergyman and politician. He was the constitutional bishop of Laval.

Villar was principal of the College of La Flèche in 1786.^[3] In 1791, he was consecrated constitutional bishop of Laval by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel.^[4]

In 1797, Villar was elected as a deputy to the Council of Five Hundred; he was appointed commissioner for the formation of high schools in 1802.^[3] He was appointed a member of the Institut de France in 1803 and member of the Académie Française in 1816.^[5]

References

^ Messenger, Mary (1961). The Anti-Catholic Program of the French Revolution and the Martyrs of Laval, France, 1794 (PDF) (Thesis). Marquette University. p. 69. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
^ "Noël-Gabriel-Luce Villar (1748-1826)". data.bnf.fr. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
^ ^a ^b Havelange, Isabelle; Huguet, Françoise; Lebedeff, Bernadette (1986). "VILLAR Noël Gabriel Luce". persee.fr (in French). Retrieved 23 August 2022.
^ Pisani, Paul (1907). Répertoire biographique de l'épiscopat constitutionnel (1791-1802) (in French). p. 142.
^ "Les premiers Inspecteurs généraux de l'Instruction publique, 1802". textesrares.com (in French). 19 March 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2022.