CALMET, AUGUSTINE, one of the most learned
and laborious writers of the 18th century, was born at
Mefnil le Horgne, a village in the diocese of Toul in
France, in the year 1672, and took the habit of the
Benedictines in 1688. Among the many works he
published are, 1. A literal exposition in French, of all
the books in the Old Testament, in nine volumes folio.
2. An historical, critical, chronological, geographical,
and literal dictionary of the Bible, in four vols. folio,
enriched with a great number of figures of Jewish an-
tiquities. 3. A civil and ecclesiastical history of Lor-
rain, three vols. folio. 4. A history of the Old and
New Testament, and of the Jews, in two volumes
folio, and seven vols. duodecimo. 5. An universal sacred
and profane history, in several volumes quarto. He
died in 1757.