ZAMET, SÉBASTIEN. - Bishop, b. in Paris in 1588 to the financier Sébastien, d. at Mussy on 2 Feb. 1655.
Chaplain to Queen Maria de' Medici, on 6 Apr. 1615 he was elected Bishop of Langres and immediately worked within the Assembly of the Clergy to ensure that the canons of the reform of the Council of Trent were finally enforced in France; in his own diocese he set an example through preaching, hearing confessions, and overseeing the reform of religious women. He soon became a member of the Company of the Most Blessed Sacrament (v.) and was a friend of St. Vincent de Paul and of the most distinguished reformers of his age.
From 1626 in Paris he was for a time the spiritual director of Angélique Arnaud, whom he entrusted in 1633 to Saint-Cyran (v.). When the latter began to spread the doctrine and spirit of Jansenism, especially regarding Confession, Zamet refuted him in two writings, one of which he sent to Cardinal Richelieu, who then proceeded to arrest the famous abbot.