Charles de Villers

Charles François Dominique de Villers (4 November 1765 – 26 February 1815) was a French philosopher.

Like other officers of that era, such as the artillery colonel Armand Marie Jacques de Chastenet of Puysegur, he became interested in animal magnetism.

After the horrors of the French Revolution, Villers moved to Germany and there in Göttingen in 1794 befriended the German intellectual Dorothea von Schlözer and her husband, the Mayor Mattheus Rodde.

He reported these catastrophic events in his Lettre à Mme la Comtesse de Beauharnais, Fanny, contenant un récit des événements qui se sont passés à Lübeck dans le journées du jeudi 6 novembre 1806 et les suivantes.

Villers was significant as the individual who explained the works of Immanuel Kant to the French-speaking world.