The Petit Larousse, published in its present form since 1905 and issued annually since 1959, is an illustrated single-volume dictionary and encyclopedia. An abridged form of the Grande Dictionnaire Encyclopedique Larousse, it is the best known, most traditional student and family dictionary-encyclopedia in France.
Pink pages offer foreign language quotations and French proverbs.
The encyclopedia section gives short entries primarily for people and places, a sort of biographical dictionary and gazetteer, with illustrations, maps, and portraits. It does not deal with broad subjects, movements, philosophies or concepts. As a miscellaneous item it lists the Goncourt Prize winners.