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In French, one of the meanings of cause is a legal case, and célèbre means "famous". The phrase originated with the 37-volume Nouvelles Causes Célèbres, published in 1763, which was a collection of reports of well-known French court decisions from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Luncheon on the Grass was one of the first in a series of Parisian succès de scandale. Richard Strauss's head on a silver platter satirizes the decapitation of John the Baptist in his operatic version of Wilde's Salome Not a commercial success in Europe, Paul Chabas's September Morn ended up in the permanent collection of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, after scandalising Anthony ...
à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1] à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu". In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes from the menu rather than a fixed-price meal. In America "à la carte menu" can be found, an oxymoron and a pleonasm. à propos
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;
“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.
Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Causes célèbres
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.
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.