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Title
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Petit Larousse Illustre |
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Published
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Paris : Librairie Larousse, c1986, c1980 |
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Call Number
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AG25 .P47 1987 |
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Notes
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The Petit Larousse, published in its present form since 1905 and issued
annually since 1959, is an illustrated single-volume dictionary and
encyclopedia. An abridged form of the Grande Dictionnaire Encyclopedique
Larousse, it is the best known, most traditional student and family
dictionary-encyclopedia in France. In the dictionary section illustrations
and schematic presentations often contain specialized vocabulary items, as
in "moteur" where all the parts of a motor are identified in the
illustration. Pink pages offer foreign language quotations and French
proverbs. The encyclopedia section gives short entries primarily for
people and places, a sort of biographical dictionary and gazetteer, with
illustrations, maps, and portraits. It does not deal with broad subjects,
movements, philosophies or concepts. As a miscellaneous item it lists the
Goncourt Prize winners.
JG, 3/96 |