The Grote Nederlandse Larousse Encyclopedie (abbr. GNLE) is a Dutch-language

Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...

 encyclopaedia based on the French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 Grand Larousse encyclopédique

Grand Larousse encyclopédique

The Grand Larousse encyclopédique en dix volumes is a French encyclopedic dictionary published by Larousse, published in volumes between February 1960 and August 1964, with two later supplements....

, which appeared from 1971 to 1979 in 25 volumes. The project of publisher Heideland-Orbis (Hasselt) was larger in scope than its example, as well as the then existent Dutch encyclopaedias Winkler Prins en Oosthoek

Oosthoek (encyclopedia)

The Oosthoek is a Dutch encyclopedia, published by Oosthoek's Uitgevers Mij. N.V. in Utrecht, which was founded in 1907 by A. Oosthoek and which merged with Kluwer in 1970. The encyclopedia is a continuation of Vivat's Geïllustreerde Encyclopedie , bought by Oosthoek and it appeared from 1916 as...

. Due to the cooperation with the publisher of the Larousse they could appeal to the extensive know-how of the French encyclopaedia and supplement it with the help from Dutch and Belgian experts.

The encyclopaedia contains 500 000 lemmas, 1066 categories grouped in 20 disciplines, 8000 literary quotation

Quotation

A quotation or quote is the repetition of one expression as part of another one, particularly when the quoted expression is well-known or explicitly attributed by citation to its original source, and it is indicated by quotation marks.A quotation can also refer to the repeated use of units of any...

s, 52 000 illustration

Illustration

An illustration is a displayed visualization form presented as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that is created to elucidate or dictate sensual information by providing a visual representation graphically.- Early history :The earliest forms of illustration were prehistoric...

s, 1200 geographical and thematic map

Thematic map

A thematic map is a type of map or chart especially designed to show a particular theme connected with a specific geographic area. These maps "can portray physical, social, political, cultural, economic, sociological, agricultural, or any other aspects of a city, state, region,nation , or...

s and 40 000 citations. A full medical encyclopaedia is included, as well as the Koenen-Endepols dictionary

Dictionary

A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often listed alphabetically, with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon...

. A separate atlas

Atlas

An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a map of Earth or a region of Earth, but there are atlases of the other planets in the Solar System. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today many atlases are in multimedia formats...

is part of the series.

Only a single edition of the Grote Nederlandse Larousse appeared.

• Grote Nederlandse Larousse Encyclopedie. Samenstellers: L. Nagels en L. Vandeschoor. 25 dln. A-Z 1972-79. Atlas, 1979. 2 supplementen 1980, 1983. 's-Gravenhage: Scheltens en Giltay (vanaf dl. 17: Hasselt: Heideland-Orbis / 's-Gravenhage: Scheltens en Giltay).