Maurice Rat (March 2, 1891 – May 13, 1969) was a French philologist.A.U.M.L.A.: Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association. (1963). Australia: The Association. p. 412Babut, J. (1999). Idiomatic Expressions of the Hebrew Bible: Their Meaning and Translation Through Componential Analysis. United States: BIBAL Press. p. 4 He was the uncle of cyberneticist Robert Vallée. References