The most popular home reference work for French, this monolingual French dictionary contains 150,000 definitions, 59,000 common nouns, 28,000 proper nouns, a grammar section, 321 color maps, and 5000 illustrations. New for 2007 are 100 new common nouns, 50 new proper nouns, an insert for "The Passionate Voyage of the Words" illustrated by Moebius, and an inspired new cover reinforcing the concept of a voyage of discovery.