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Hachette Recalls Larousse Student Dictionary, Orders Companywide Review of School Titles

The company says it will scrutinize about 50,000 pages after identical language in three revision guides mislabeled the October 7 victims.

Overview

  • Hachette added a Larousse dictionary for middle-schoolers to earlier recalls of three revision manuals that used the same contested wording.
  • All four works have been withdrawn from sale, are subject to a formal recall, and will be destroyed.
  • The dictionary entry said more than 1,200 "Jewish settlers" were killed in October 2023, mirroring the phrasing found in the manuals.
  • About twenty editors have been assigned to review roughly one hundred school, extracurricular and dictionary titles totaling more than 50,000 pages.
  • Hachette opened an internal inquiry and will strengthen vetting for future publications, after LICRA flagged the error and President Emmanuel Macron condemned the falsification of facts.