Pierre Antoine Jean-Baptiste Villiers (10 March 1760 – 21 July 1849 in Paris) became a French playwright, journalist and poet.
Already a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, he was made chevalier of the Order of Saint Louis on 18 August 1822[1] In 1790, by his own testimony in Souvenirs d'un déporté, a collection of anecdotes published in 1802, for seven months he served as secretary to Maximilien de Robespierre, then living rue de Saintonge [fr] in Le Marais, copying several of his speeches and adjusting his spending or cohabited with him.
[2] A Royalist, as a Captain of dragoons he was injured on 10 August 1792 while defending the Palais des Tuileries.
[1] Reappearing in public after the coup, Villiers devoted himself to literary work as an author of comedies, dramas and plays in verse.
He also published newspapers such as Les Rapsodistes au salon, ou les Tableaux en vaudevilles (1795–1796), in which he wrote criticisms of the Salon, Rapsodies du jour, ou Séances des deux conseils en vaudevilles (1796–1800), Le Chant du coq, ou le Nouveau Réveil du peuple, Le Chiffonnier, ou le Panier aux épigrammes (which is a sequel to Rapsodies), La Lyre d'Anacréon (1810–1811) and La Macédoine à la Rumfort, journal de littérature et de bienfaisance.