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Antoine Augustin Calmet O.S.B. (26 February 1672 – 25 October 1757) a French Benedictine monk was born at Ménil-la-Horgne then in the Duchy of Bar part of the Holy Roman Empire (now the French department of Meuse located in the region of Lorraine).He was educated at the Benedictine priory of Breuil in the town of Commercy and in 1688 joined the same Order at the Abbey of Saint-Mansuy at Toul where he was admitted to profession on the 23 October of the following year.