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Casaubon

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Casaubon [kəˈsɔːbən (French) kazobɔ̃]
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(Biographies / Casaubon, Isaac (1559-1614) M, French, RELIGION: theologian, HISTORY: classical scholar) Isaac (izaak). 1559-1614, French Protestant theologian and classical scholar


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She leaves her parents, Alfred and Carol (Broghamer) Girardin of Webster; sister and best friend, Bonnie Wade of Webster; sister, Mary-Linn Ceminski of Charlton, four nephews, Denis Casaubon and his wife, Bianca, Justin and Jeremy Wade and Nicholas Richard; also survived by many aunts, uncles and cousins.
The appeal was heard by three judges at the High Court in Granada yesterday in McArdle's absence, although he was represented by his lawyer Luis Casaubon.
In George Eliot's Middlemarch, the character Edward Casaubon famously devotes his life to deducing "the key to all mythologies"--a sort of ur-fable underlying and explaining all others--only to realize that there is no such thing.
 
 
 
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