Larousse

Larousse, Parisian publishing house specializing in encyclopaedias and dictionaries, founded in 1852 by Augustin Boyer and Pierre Larousse, editor of the Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIX^e siècle (15 vol., 1866–76; 2 supplements, 1878 and 1890). The many reference works later published by descendants of the founders derived from Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire. The Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIX^e siècle, in the compilation of which Larousse was guided by the motto vulgariser sans abaisser (“popularize without debasing”),...