Meaning of chronique scandaleuse | Babel Free

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A journalistic account of a love affair, crime, or other scandalous event.

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“[M]y antiquarian looked at me with a knowing eye, […] and lowering his voice into a confidential whisper (although not a soul was to be seen within half a mile around), communicated to me a mass of intelligence so much bordering on the nature of a chronique scandaleuse, that I found it necessary to stop his current of abuse by a peremptory order […]”

“Yet I have at last induced her to withdraw her opposition, by remarking, with a grave air, how glad the embassies are, when there is a dearth of political news, to lay hold of a tale of this kind and to transmit it to their respective courts, as a chronique scandaleuse. The duchess admitted this, and at last, though with a very bad grace, consented to the performance of the opera.”

“Lobbying and votes on the one hand, and concessions on the other might be written into a chronique scandaleuse of Canadian history. Railways and politics have, in fact, never been completely dissociated in Canada […]”

“The chroniques scandaleuses were printed versions of these manuscript news sheets. They stood half way in the evolutionary process by which archaic rumor mongering developed into popular journalism.”

“Our lack of information [about Agrippina the Younger] has led to wild speculations that her memoirs were a ‘chronique scandaleuse’, full of malice and slander written to blacken the reputation of her enemies. […] Obviously, the belief that they were a ‘chronique scandaleuse’, which is not in keeping with the character of commentarii, seems inspired by the prejudice that this is the kind of work women were apt to write rather than by any evidence.”

“English anti-aristocratic pornography was also deeply rooted in a French tradition, that of the chroniques scandaleuses. These salacious little stories about the court at Versailles delighted English readers.”

“There is a chronique scandaleuse of the convents as dark and repulsive as the chronique scandaleuse of the papacy during the pornocracy, and under the last popes of the Middle Ages. In a letter to Alexander III., asking him to dissolve the abbey of Grestain, the bishop of the diocese, Arnulf, spoke of all kinds of abuses, avarice, quarrelling, murder, profligacy.”

“Members of the book trade evoked another contemporary term, chronique scandaleuse, cautiously. Schütz, for example, insisted that Casanova's Memoirs should not be considered a chronique scandaleuse. Books in this category, he wrote, subordinated aesthetic, philosophical, and narrative values to the goal of arousal. He wrote that the chronique scandaleuse was also marked by the type of reading practice it fostered: a focus not on the whole of the narrative but on salacious passages mined for sensual pleasure.”

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