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Nicolas Toinard (1629–1706), French biblical scholar, numismatist

He was the son of the président of the parlement and lieutenant-general of the bailliage of Orleans; seigneur de Villanblin. An antiquarian with particular interest in the study of ancient coins; author of dissertations on Roman medals (1689, 1690) and an edition of Lactantius's De mortibus persecutorum (1690). He was a New Testament scholar of some repute; his Cahiers de corrections (1702) is a trenchant critique of the French translation of Richard Simon. His harmony of the Gospels, Evangeliorum harmonia Græco-Latina (1707), was in the press at the time of his death, and he left money for its completion.