chronique scandaleuse

Borrowed from French chronique scandaleuse, from chronique (“chronicle”) + scandaleuse (“scandalous”, feminine form of scandaleux).

• (US) IPA^(key): /kɹəˈnik ˌskɑndəˈlɜːz/
• Hyphenation: chro‧nique scan‧da‧leuse
• Homophone: chroniques scandaleuses

chronique scandaleuse (plural chroniques scandaleuses)

1. A journalistic account of a love affair, crime, or other scandalous event.
   • 1815, Lewis Engelbach, Naples and the Campagna Felice. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Friend in England, in 1802, London: R[udolph] Ackermann, 101, Strand, OCLC 84042884, page 354:

     [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 […]

   • 1859 July, E. M. Swann, “Charlotte Fandauer's Ghost. From the German of Hauff.”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume 116, number CCCCLXIII, London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, OCLC 7961902, page 339:

     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.

   • 1964, G[eorge] P[arkin] de T[wenebroker] Glazebrook, A History of Transportation in Canada. Volume II, National Economy: 1867–1936 [The Carleton Library; 12], volume II, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, OCLC 490867283, page 215:

     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 […]

   • 1976, Robert Darnton; Bernhard Fabian; Roy McKeen Wiles, Paul J. Korshin, editor, The Widening Circle: Essays on the Circulation of Literature in Eighteenth-century Europe [Haney Foundation series; 20], Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 56:

     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.

   • 1999, Emily A[nn] Hemelrijk, Matrona Docta: Educated Women in the Roman Élite from Cornelia to Julia Domna, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 187:

     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.

   • 2008, Robert Muchembled; Jean Birrell, transl., Orgasm and the West: A History of Pleasure from the 16th Century to the Present, Cambridge: Polity, →ISBN, page 125:

     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.

   • 2013, Philip Schaff, The Christian Church from the 1st to the 20th Century, USA: Delmarva Publications, Inc.:

     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.

   • 2014, Sarah L. Leonard, Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls: The Matter of Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century Germany, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 97:

     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.

• For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:chronique scandaleuse.

chronique +‎ scandaleuse.

• IPA^(key): [kʁɔ.nik.skɑ̃.da.løz]
• Hyphenation: chro‧nique scan‧da‧leuse

chronique scandaleuse f (plural chroniques scandaleuses)

1. Chronique scandaleuse.

• For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:chronique scandaleuse.