The Nouveau Larousse illustré (New Larousse Illustrated) was an illustrated 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...

 language encyclopedia

Encyclopedia

An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge....

 published by Larousse

Éditions Larousse

Éditions Larousse 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 by Vivendi Universal in 1998...

 between 1897-1904, in 7 volumes and a supplement. It was essentially a scaled-down version of the "Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle" (Great universal dictionary of the 19th century) of Pierre Larousse

Pierre Larousse

Pierre Athanase Larousse was a French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist. He published many of the outstanding educational and reference works of 19th-century France, including the 15 volume Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle.-Early life:Pierre Larousse was born in Toucy, where...

, but updated and written in a more neutral, scientific style under the editorship of Claude Augé (1854-1924).

The encyclopedia consisted of 7,600 pages containing 237,000 articles, with 49,000 b/w illustrations, over 500 maps and 89 colour plates.

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Nouveau Larousse illustré (1897-1904)

Volume	From	To
Volume 1	A	Bello
Volume 2	Bem	Ch
Volume 3	Ci	D
Volume 4	E	G
Volume 5	H	Meld
Volume 6	Mele	Po
Volume 7	Pr	Z
Supplement	A	Z