Some freely-downloadable editions of Petit Larousse

Speaking of the Petit Larousse dictionary/encyclopedia in the July 27th post, here is a free Archive.org source for some past editions of Petit Larousse.

You can freely download the editions of 1906 and 1922 in PDF format and the 1959, 1989, 1993 and 1991 are borrowable for two week periods.

The motto of Larousse publications as well as that of its founder, French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopedist Pierre Larousse, is “Je sème à tout vents”, which explains the dandelion motif on so many of the covers.

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