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Gabriel Villar

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Gabriel Villar
Constitutional bishop of Laval
Installed1791
Term ended1814
Orders
Consecration22 May 1791[1]
by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel
Personal details
Born(1748-12-13)13 December 1748
Died26 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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Noël-Gabriel-Luce Villar (1748-1826)". data.bnf.fr. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  3. ^ a b Havelange, Isabelle; Huguet, Françoise; Lebedeff, Bernadette (1986). "VILLAR Noël Gabriel Luce". Publications de l'Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique (in French). 11 (1): 642–643. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  4. ^ Pisani, Paul (1907). Répertoire biographique de l'épiscopat constitutionnel (1791-1802) (in French). p. 142.
  5. ^ "Les premiers Inspecteurs généraux de l'Instruction publique, 1802". textesrares.com (in French). 19 March 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2022.