Nicolas Barat was a French Catholic scholar of Hebrew works, who died in 1706.
[1] Barat was born at Bourges during the first quarter of the seventeenth century; he began his studies at Sens, and continued them in Paris, where he was instructor in the Mazarin College.
At the time of his death he was engaged on a French translation of Schabtai's Rabbinical Library.
His critical opinions, and much information that he had acquired, were published posthumously under the title, Nouvelle bibliothèque choisie (Amsterdam, 1714, 2 vols.
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