Éditions Larousse
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French publishing house
Key facts
- Parent company
- Hachette Lagardère
- Founded
- 1852 ; 174 years ago ( 1852 )
- Founder
- Pierre Larousse
- Country of origin
- France
- Headquarters location
- Paris
- Key people
- Isabelle Jeuge-Maynart ( CEO )
- Official website
- larousse .fr
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- EDITIONS LAROUSSE
- Official website
- www.editions-larousse.fr
- Image
- Logotype de Larousse par E. Grasset.jpg
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- social media followers
- 27445
- floruit
- 1918-01-01
- inception
- 1852-00-00
- Commons category
- Larousse
- native label
- Éditions Larousse
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Éditions Larousse ( French pronunciation: [edisjɔ̃ laʁus]) is a French publishing house specialising in reference works such as dictionaries. It was founded by Pierre Larousse, and for some time was known also as Librairie Larousse; its best-known work is the Petit Larousse single-volume quarto dictionary.
It was acquired from private owners by Compagnie Européenne de Publication in 1984, then by Havas in 1997. It was acquired by Vivendi Universal in 1998. Vivendi made losses in 2002 and sold Larousse to the Lagardère Group, thus satisfying public opinion by keeping Larousse in French hands, despite objections by smaller publishers about Lagardère's virtual monopoly on French publishing. It has been a subsidiary of Hachette Livre since 2004.