(25) Jean-Claude Boulanger, <<Le Petit Larousse au Quebec; breve histoire et influence>>, dans Jean Pruvost et Micheline Guilpain-Giraud (dirs.),
Pierre Larousse, du Grand Dictionnaire au Petit Larousse.
In Jean Pruvost's first article we read that
Pierre Larousse was more than a lexicographer; he was an innovative teacher (village schoolmaster in Burgundy), a writer of French manuals (grammar and lexicology), bookseller, publisher, printer, a practical and ambitious businessman.
Une breve postface (431-34) est suivie de pages d'anthologie qui cloturent le volume (435-43), contenant divers extraits (Michelet, Nisard, Flaubert, Bourdieu, etc.) et surtout les articles "Province" et "Provincial" du Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siecle de
Pierre Larousse, finalement accompagnes d'une page de "Reperes bibliographiques" succincts (444).
Increasingly professional literary critics are also usefully represented by Brunetiere, Faguet, Lanson, and Taine and, less predictably, by
Pierre Larousse's severe 1867 'Balzac' Dictionnaire universel entry.