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Éditions Larousse

« Je sème à tout vent. »
Parent company	Hachette Lagardère
Founded	1852; 172 years ago (1852)
Founder	Pierre Larousse
Country of origin	France
Headquarters location	Paris
Key people	Isabelle Jeuge-Maynart (CEO)
Official website	larousse.fr

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 its best-known work is the Petit Larousse.

It was acquired from private owners by Compagnie Européenne de Publication in 1984, then 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.

It also offers the Larousse Gastronomique and a free, open-content encyclopedia.

The logo was designed by, among others, Jean Picart Le Doux (1955–1970), Jean-Michel Folon (1972), Philippe Starck (2006), Christian Lacroix, Moebius, Karl Lagerfeld (1999) and Jean-Charles de Castelbajac (2014). It always represented a woman blowing on a dandelion blowball, with the motto "Je sème à tout vent" (I sow to every wind).

See also

• Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, 1866–1876 encyclopedia with 1877 and 1890 supplements
• Nouveau Larousse illustré (New Larousse Illustrated), 1897–1904 encyclopedia
• Grand Larousse encyclopédique, 1960-1964 encyclopedia
• Grand Dictionnaire Encyclopédique Larousse, 1982–1985 dictionary and encyclopedia
• Petit Larousse (1905)

Notes

1. Larousse, Éditions. "Encyclopédie Larousse en ligne - Accueil". www.larousse.fr.
2. Larousse, Éditions. "Larousse.fr : encyclopédie et dictionnaires gratuits en ligne". www.larousse.fr.

• Book publishing companies of France
• French brands
• French companies established in 1852