Nicolas Nancel or Nancelius Trachyenus Noviodunensis (1539 – 1610) was a French physician and humanist. He wrote a biography of Petrus Ramus, whom he knew personally.Skalnik, J. V. (2002). Ramus and Reform: University and Church at the End of the Renaissance. United States: Penn State University Press. p. 20MacDonald, K. (2007). Biography in Early Modern France, 1540-1630: Forms and Functions. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis Group. p. 75 References