Casaubon

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Casaubon may mean:

  • Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614), French classical scholar
  • Méric Casaubon (1599-1671), French-English classical scholar, son of Isaac
  • Philippe Casaubon (1994-) , French-English street magician ,

Edward Casaubon is a fictional character in Middlemarch by George Eliot, whose name alludes to his old-fashioned scholarly interests by referring to the above.

Casaubon (no first name given) is a fictional character Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco; also a scholar his name refers both to Isaac Casaubon and Eliot's Edward Casaubon.

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