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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;
First edition (publ. Hamish Hamilton, 1978) Cause Célèbre or A Woman of Principle is a 1975 radio play, and the final play by the English author Terence Rattigan.It was inspired by the trial of Alma Rattenbury and her teenage lover in 1935 for the murder of her third husband Francis Rattenbury and first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 27 October 1975.
William Frederick Le Poer Trench, 5th Earl of Clancarty, 4th Marquess of Heusden (29 December 1868 – 16 February 1929) was an Irish peer of the House of Lords, a Dutch nobleman, and a deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace of County Galway.
“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.
Contemporaries suspected him of practising the dark arts, [55] and it was known he had predicted the death of William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk. [55] Stacy—under acerrimum examen, literally, "severe examination" (i.e. torture) [56] [46] —in turn implicated Thomas Burdet of Arowe, [53] a member of Clarence's household. [5]
A teen with a 'Make America Great Again' hat becomes a conservative cause celebre. The suit became a cause celebre for conservatives and talk show hosts.. Then-President Trump defended Sandmann ...
François Gayot de Pitaval (1673–1743) was a French advocate. He compiled a famous collection of causes célèbres . [ 1 ] Later the literary genre of true crime collections became known as Pitaval .