What is "celebre"

Usage examples of "celebre".

Dans la suite, le nom de Jean Meusnier, devenu celebre, me fut rappele tous les jours par les journaux qui le citaient avec des louanges.

Sending Elian back to Cuba had become a cause celebre bigger than defending Alger Hiss.

Vitalis and Marie Boyer I found the story of this case in a brochure published in Paris as one of a series of modern causes celebres.

I was a potential cause celebre, a casus belli and all those other foreign phrases which the leader writers of The Times trot out so readily in moments of crisis, and all attempts were being made to keep the situation potential and to prevent it from becoming actual.

Glantz had had no choice at all but to sue, and right now, the case of the mutated bacilli was a minor cause celebre in the Federal District courts.

If he is a member of the "special" panel, it is easy to find out whether he has ever acquitted or convicted in any cause celebre, and if he has acquitted any plainly guilty defendant in the past it is not likely that his services will be required.

Her innocence was supported by the fact that she never became a liberal cause celebre.

I said grimly, 'If this lark ever comes into the open it'll be the biggest cause celebre to hit Iceland since Sam Phelps tried to set up Jorgen Jorgensen as king back in 1809.

Some day, sooner or later, he will jecome the cause celebre that will lead these ignorant politicians and witch doctors to lift their ban on nanotherapy.

This case had become a cause celebre for the Aubinans, who claimed that Glaves was being persecuted by a vengeful Marneri government.

Blown out of the courtroom, catching heat from uor-citizen advocacy groups that had salivated over chance to make the Bognars a cause celebre, Wil- in desperation got in touch with certain admittedly operators about providing what might be called illegal recourse.

Era come camminare sulla luna, a lunghe falcate agili, a una velocità superiore a quella del più celebre dei velocisti.