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succès d'estime
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suc·cès d'es·time  (sük-s ds-tm)
n.
An important but unpopular success or achievement.

[French : succès, success + de, of + estime, esteem.]

succès d'estime French [syksɛ dɛstim]
n pl succès d'estime
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) success, as of a book, play, etc., based on the appreciation of the critics rather than popular acclaim
[literally: success of esteem]


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A few others had the attributes of a succes d'estime, but without parallel economic value or popular success, at least at the time of their introduction.
If Classic Quebec Cinema produced succes d'estime ranging from Brault's docudrama Les ordres to Charles Biname's Eldorado (which revives the direct cinema style in the 1990s), Quebec Lite has produced most of the popular hits.
Yet Traci Lords has shown she can shift from teenage skin queen to "straight" actress, and in the world of comix, Art Spiegelman has moved fromd underground artist to succes d'estime to the cover of The New Yorker.
 
 
 
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