The Abbé de Montfaucon de Villars (1635 to 1673) was a French churchman, writer and mystic born in Alet, near Toulouse. He took holy orders early and moved to Paris in 1667, hoping to win fame as a preacher. His most important book is Comte de Gabalis (1670), published anonymously, which presents itself as a novel but works largely as satire, mixing history, philosophy and mysticism in ways that conflicted with Catholic doctrine. In 1671 he published De la Délicatesse, a dialogue opposing Jansenist teaching. He was murdered on the road near Lyon in 1673, and a sequel, Nouveaux Entretiens sur les sciences secrètes, appeared in 1715.
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His eloquence in the pulpit won him numerous admirers, but he grew more interested in literature than in clerical affairs, and in 1670 he published his first and most important book, Comte du Gabalis.
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