The CNRS Gold Medal, France's highest scientific distinction, has been awarded this year to the philosopher and philologist Barbara Cassin, senior researcher emeritus at the CNRS and member of the ...

On May 4 of this year, Barbara Cassin, a French Jewish philologist and philosopher born in 1947, was elected to the Académie française. Of over 720 members of the French Academy since the 1600s, ...

Barbara Jean Cassin Barbara Jean Cassin, beloved mother and grandmother, passed away on October 15, 2012. She was a fifty-six-year resident of Palos Verdes. Barbara was born on October 12, 1927 in ...

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