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...foremost dictionary-encyclopedia. Today the Larousse books are the final popular arbiters for French words: nine out of ten Frenchmen know them, and eight out of ten families own either the one-volume Petit Larousse (1,800 pages, 70,000 words and articles), the two-volume Nouveau Larousse Universel (2,176 pages, 138,423 words and articles), or the definitive dictionary itself with 6,500 pages and 236,000 words and articles. Last week, with the new supplement, scholars and plain citizens could find out what has happened to their language-and their world-since...
Proudly France accepted this legacy of patriotism. Then it honored the donor in a manner wholly French. At the Comédie Française Madame Bretty played her first stage role (Lisette in Le Légataire Universel) since liberation. From the crowded audience came wave after wave of deep applause, for her and for Georges Mandel...
...Modern Philology, Vol. XI, by F. Schoenemann; "The Ideal Obstretic Out-Patient Clinic," for The American Journal of Obstretic of Women and Children, Vol. LXIX, by F. S. Newell; "Translation of La America del Sud," by G. Rivera; "The Story of Dante's Gianni Schicchi and Regnard's Legataire Universel," for Publications of the Modern Language Association, by R. Altrocchi; and "The Teacher of Public Speaking," for The Public Speaking Review, Vol. 4, by I. L. Winter...
...drama; a collection of French drama; the more important dictionaries and the works of the prominent French writers. For French history, there are the works of Michelet, Martin and Godefrey; for reference and research, "Le Dictionarire de l'Academie Francaise," Littre's Dictionary, Larousse's: "Dictionaire Universel" and "La Grande Encyclopedia." Among the complete sets are numbered those of Corneille, La Fontaine, La Rochefoucaud, Molicre, Racine, Madame de Levigne, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Concerdet, Diderot, Rousseau, Buffon, Beaumarchais, Chateaubriand, Mme, de Stael, LaMartine, Hugo, Dumas, Balzac, Taine and Daudet...
French XI. Oral discussion. Subject: Le Suffrage Censistaire est-il preferable au Suffrage universel? Sever...