Petit Larousse

Le Petit Larousse Illustré, commonly known simply as Le Petit Larousse^[1] (French pronunciation: [lə pə.ti laʁus]), is a French-language encyclopedic dictionary published by Éditions Larousse.^[2]^[3] It first appeared in 1905 and was edited by Claude Augé,^[3] following Augé's Dictionnaire complet illustré (1889). The one-volume work has two main sections: a dictionary featuring common words and an encyclopedia of proper nouns. Le Petit Larousse 2007 (published in 2006) includes 150,000 definitions and 5,000 illustrations.^{[citation needed]} A Spanish-version, the El Pequeño Larousse Ilustrado and an Italian version, Il Piccolo Rizzoli Larousse, have also been published.^[3]

The motto of Pierre Larousse, the namesake of Éditions Larousse, perpetuated in Larousse's publications is "Je sème à tout vent" ("I sow to all winds"). This motto inspires the cover art of Le Petit Larousse, which typically features a female figure blowing dandelion seeds.

Upon its 100th anniversary, a history of Le Petit Larousse was published called La dent-de-lion, la semeuse et le Petit Larousse written by Jean Pruvost (fr).

The following editions are available:

Compact
Coffret Noël
Grand Format
Grand Format Coffret Noël
Collection Multimedia
CD-ROM Edition Prestige

References

^ "Petit Larousse". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 2025-06-11.
^ "Les différences entre le Petit Robert et le Petit Larousse illustré". Culture-expression.fr (in French). Retrieved 2025-06-11.
^ ^a ^b ^c Garnier, Yves (2005), Cormier, Monique C.; Francœur, Aline (eds.), "Le Petit Larousse: jalons historiques", Les dictionnaires Larousse : Genèse et évolution, Paramètres (in French), Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, pp. 83–89, ISBN 979-10-365-0242-2, retrieved 2025-06-11{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)

External links

Les Editions Larousse (in French)
Le Petit Larousse, 5th edition, 1906, at Google Books
Le Petit Larousse, 5h editions, 1906, at the Internet Archive

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[1] "Petit Larousse". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 2025-06-11.

[2] "Les différences entre le Petit Robert et le Petit Larousse illustré". Culture-expression.fr (in French). Retrieved 2025-06-11.

[:0-3] Garnier, Yves (2005), Cormier, Monique C.; Francœur, Aline (eds.), "Le Petit Larousse: jalons historiques", Les dictionnaires Larousse : Genèse et évolution, Paramètres (in French), Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, pp. 83–89, ISBN 979-10-365-0242-2, retrieved 2025-06-11{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)

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