Overview
- The Larousse dictionary for middle schoolers included the sentence describing more than 1,200 victims as “Jewish settlers,” and Hachette says it had sold only a few hundred copies.
- All four identified books—the dictionary and three revision manuals—have been pulled from sale, are under recall, and will be destroyed.
- Hachette has assigned about 20 editors to review roughly 100 school and paraschool titles totaling more than 50,000 pages.
- The publisher opened an internal investigation into the editorial failures and will implement a reinforced verification process for future publications.
- Licra first identified the problematic phrasing in the manuals this week, and President Emmanuel Macron condemned the falsification of facts as intolerable.