Large encyclopedic Larousse

The Grand Larousse encyclopedic (of its complete name Grand Larousse encyclopedic in ten volumes) is a encyclopedic Dictionary in French, published by Larousse, and whose publication was spread out between February 1960 and August 1964, made abstraction of the two later supplements.

It is thus at the same time about a dictionary, centered on the study and the presentation of the words of the French language, and a Encyclopédie, turned towards the review of the various branches of the knowledge.

Description

Equip “technical”

  • Direction of the publication: Etienne Gillon, Jacques Hollier-Larousse, Jean Ibos-Trough, Claude Moreau, Jean-Louis Moreau
  • General secretary: Claude Dubois (with the title of “editor association of the encyclopedic dictionaries (French section)”)
    • assisted of 21 collaborators with the general secretary and 4 collaborators with the secretariat
  • Chief of the services of correction: Adolphe V. Thomas
    • assisted of 8 collaborators with the correction-revision
  • Chief of the iconographic service of documentation: Jean Balk
    • assisted of 5 collaborators
  • Chief of the cartographic service: Jean Barber
    • assisted of 8 collaborators
  • Chief of the service of drawing: Andre-Maurice Tamagno
  • Chief of the photographic service: Andre Laporte
    • assisted of 6 collaborators

The list of the “external” collaborators joins together 790 names, among which some frankly “prestigious” or quite simply remained famous 40 years after the publication of the work (without this celebrity being related to this collaboration). Let us quote for example:

François Albert-Bush, Paul Belmondo, Marc Boegner, Yves Truss, Jerome Carcopino, Rene Cassin, Jacques Chastenet, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, Georges Duby, Albert Ducrocq, Georges Duhamel, Rene Dumont, Andre François-Poncet, max Gallo, Pierre Gaxotte, Jean Guitton, Emile Henriot, Mariel Jean-Brunhes Delamarre, Frederic Joliot-Curie, Didier Julia, Jacob Kaplan, Yves Lacoste, Louis Leprince-Ringuet, Andre Leroi-Gourhan, Antoine de Lévis-Mirepoix, Andre Maurois, Maurice Nadeau, Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot, Régine Pernoud, Auguste Piccard, Rene Rémond, Jules Romans, Jean Rostand, Claude Santelli, Alfred Sauvy, Haroun Tazieff, Elsa Triplet, Maxime Weygand…

See too

  • Large universal Dictionary of the XIXe century

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