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A cause célèbre (/ ˌ k ɔː z s ə ˈ l ɛ b (r ə)/ ⓘ KAWZ sə-LEB(-rə), [1] French: [koz selɛbʁ]; pl. causes célèbres, pronounced like the singular) is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning, and heated public debate. [2]
A cause célèbre is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy. Cause célèbre may also refer to: Cause Célèbre, a 1975 radio play by Terence Rattigan;
In 1894, he began a love affair with the actress Eleonora Duse which became a cause célèbre. [16] He provided leading roles for her in his plays of the time such as La città morta (1898) and Francesca da Rimini (1901), but the tempestuous relationship finally ended in 1910.
“Free Chol Soo Lee” charts the complicated history of a wrongful-conviction victim who became a figurehead for both Asian-American and prisoners’-rights activists in the 1970s and beyond.
José María Teclo Morelos Pérez y Pavón (Spanish: [xoˈse maˈɾi.a ˈteklo moˈɾelos ˈpeɾes i paˈβon] ⓘ) (30 September 1765 – 22 December 1815 [1]) was a Mexican Catholic priest, statesman and military leader who led the Mexican War of Independence movement, assuming its leadership after the execution of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in 1811.
A Pitaval is a collection of causes célèbres. The name derived from the French advocate François Gayot de Pitaval (1673–1743), who published several volumes of causes célèbres et intéressantes between 1734 and 1743. Early works were mainly written for legal professionals but later Pitavals also became popular amongst other readers.
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Joe Doherty (born 20 January 1955) is an Irish former volunteer in the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who escaped during his 1981 trial for killing a member of the Special Air Service (SAS) in 1980.