Gabriel Cossart

File:Personificatie van de kerk die de heidenen verjaagt Titelpagina voor Philippe Labbé en Gabriel Cossart, Sacrosancta Concilia ad Regiam Editionem Exacta (..), 1672, RP-P-OB-43.901.jpg

Gabriel Cossart {{post-nominals|post-noms=SJ}} (22 November 1615 – 18 September 1674){{cite book|author=Thompson Cooper|title=A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing Concise Notices of Eminent Persons of All Ages and Countries: and More Particularly of Distinguished Natives of Great Britain and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=phhGJXvlcUkC&pg=PA448|year=1874|publisher=Macmillan|pages=448}} was a French Jesuit, known as a historian. He taught rhetoric at the College de Clermont. He was a librarian there, described as “worldly-wise”, and a promoter of the careers of his students.Raymond E. Wanner, Claude Fleury, 1640-1723, as an Educational Historiographer and Thinker (1975), p. 3. As a scholar he collaborated with Philippe Labbe.

He engaged in controversy over Petrus Ramus with François du Monstier.[http://homepages.udayton.edu/~youngkbr/annperecossart.htm Annotation: Pere Cossart, du Monstier, and Ramus' Protestantism in the Light of a New Manuscript]