Dictionnaire Hachette


Title
Dictionnaire Hachette
Published
< Paris : Hachette, c1980>
Call Number
AG25 .D527
Notes
The one-volume Hachette combines words, names, places and concepts into a single alphabetical list. Fine illustrations, mostly in color, appear throughout, although the illustrations do not provide as much lexical detail as the Larousse. Word definitions come first. They are reasonably detailed in terms of varieties of usage but not much more detailed than the Larousse. Beneath the definitions and usages (with a note on the first recorded appearance of the word) in a box enclosing ENCYCL come the encyclopedia entries, which are generally short, even in the case of large concepts. An atlas of better quality than the Larousse appears at the end of the volume. The miscellany, a section of French verbs, a table of the elements and items, appears at the beginning of the dictionary.

JG, 3/96


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