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- WORLD, Page 57World NotesFRANCEA Grand Goof For Larousse
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- The venerable publishing house's logo portrays a young woman
- blowing softly through a dandelion, sowing knowledge. What an
- upset, then, for Larousse to discover spores of deadly
- misinformation in the latest edition of its dictionary. A color
- illustration on page 203 of the 1991 Petit Larousse en Couleurs
- incorrectly identifies three highly poisonous wild mushrooms
- as being harmless.
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- Reacting promptly to correct the mistake, the worst in its
- history, Larousse suspended all sales of the 1,700-page, $75
- dictionary, which sells more than a million copies a year, and
- recalled the 180,000 volumes already distributed so corrected
- champignon stickers can be placed over the erroneous captions.
- Cost: $5.5 million.
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