Dictionnaire Hachette-Oxford

The first bilingual French dictionary to be compiled entirely from electronic databases of current language, providing the most recent vocabulary for both French and English, as well as a new encyclopedic supplement on French society and culture, including famous places, regions, acronyms, institutions, film, politics, and more. Provides comprehensive coverage of the general, scientific, and technical vocabulary of contemporary French and English, with 355,000 words and phrases and over 540,000 translations; vocabulary used by writers such as Zola, Dumas, Proust, and Hugo; practical guidance for residing in France, including model letters and postcards, help in writing job applications and CVs, and a new section on using the telephone in France.--From publisher description.