Authors: Charles Guinness (Compiler), Denis Girard (Compiler), Gaston Dulong (Compiler), Oliver Van Oss
ISBN-13: 9780025226203, ISBN-10: 0025226207
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: October 1977
Edition: 1st MacMillan ed
Denis Girard is the former Cultural Attache at the French Embassy in London.
Gaston Dulong is professor of French Philiogy at the Universite Laval in Quebec, Canada.
Oliver Van Oss is the former Head of the Modern Language Department at Eton.
Thumb-indexed edition
A hundred years of experience in dictionary publishing lies behind this edition of the famous Cassell's French Dictionary. After more than thirty impressions of the previous edition this entirely new dictionary has been compiled by a team of eminent linguists.
Reviewing the new dictionary The Times Educational Supplement said: "One handles this dictionary with the same pleasure that a craftsman feels when he finds that a tool, dulled and blunted by long use and passage of time, has come back sharpened and polished, refurbished and fit once more for long years of useful service. Everyone has his testing-points for a dictionary and the present reviewer, after submitting this one to the ordeal, awarded it a tentative full marks. Its minor defects pale into insignificance before the scholarly achievement of a work for which the publishers can rightly claim that it is ëthe most authoritative, up-to-date and, within the limits of size, the most comprehensive French dictionary available."
Bibliography | vi | |
Preface | vii | |
Preface sur les Canadianismes | ix | |
Advice to the User | x | |
Avis au Lecteur | xi | |
Key to Pronunciation | xiv | |
List of Abbreviations | xvi | |
Part I | French-English Dictionary | 1 |
Part II | English-French Dictionary | 1 |
Conversion Tables for Weights and Measures | 636 | |
French Irregular Verbs | 638 | |
English Irregular Verbs | 649 | |
Common French Abbreviations | 652 | |
Common English Abbreviations | 654 |