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‖ succès|syksɛ|
[Fr., = success n.]
Used in phrases with reference to types of artistic success or acclaim, as succès de scandale |də skɑ̃dal|, success due to notoriety or scandalous character; succès d'estime |dɛstim|, a critical rather than a popular or commercial success; succès fou |fu|, a success marked by wild enthusiasm. Also transf. and fig.
[1826New Monthly Mag. Dec. 578 Merely that lukewarm approbation, which in Paris is termed un succès d'estime.] 1859Once a Week 13 Aug. 136/1 My second attempt..will be something more substantial than a mere succès d'estime. 1878J. A. C. Morison Gibbon vi. 86 The book was..a succès fou. 1887R. Churchill Let. 2 Mar. in W. S. Churchill Lord Randolph Churchill (1906) II. xvii. 291, I think the Government are earning a rather second-rate kind of succès d'estime. 1896G. B. Shaw Our Theatres in Nineties (1932) II. 35 Mr Cartwright..enjoyed..a sort of succès de scandale. 1908Mrs. H. Ward Diana Mallory iii. xvi. 331 She would find herself a succès fou—people tumbling over each other to invite her, and make a show of her. 1919‘C. Dane’ Legend 56 The first two books were a succès d'estime. 1928Observer 1 Jan. 8 The success which Victor Margueritte's novel ‘La Garçonne’ made all over Europe..was chiefly a succès de scandale. 1948W. Fortescue Beauty for Ashes xix. 142 It was hard work creating something from nothing, but very great fun, and had the usual succès fou of all dramatic performances coached by the founder. 1965A. J. Ayer in Listener 4 Nov. 700/2 The result was Language, Truth and Logic... Though it had an almost immediate succès de scandale, its tenets..had a respectable philosophical ancestry. 1977Daily Tel. 17 Mar. 14/3 It has already won a succès d'estime in the United States, and seems likely also to become a cult work here. 1978Christian V. 86 What caught on with a succès fou and drew in the spiritual élite of the generation in tens of thousands was a Benedictine reform movement. 1979M. Hiley Victorian Working Women i. iv. 48 The Pictorial World..was obviously hoping for some succès de scandale by splashing women in trousers across its front page. |