biography
| name: |
Larousse, Pierre (Athanase)
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pronunciation:
[laroos]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1817–75)
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| biography:
| Publisher and lexicographer, born in Toucy, C France. He studied at Versailles, became a teacher, and began his linguistic research in Paris in 1840. He wrote several grammars, dictionaries, and other textbooks, notably his Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle (15 vols, 1865–76, Great Universal Dictionary of the Nineteenth Century). |
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