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A " cause célèbre " is an incident arousing widespread controversy. The French term became popular in the English language during the Alfred Dreyfus Affair, a legal and political case that caused widespread public debate. While the people who caused these hoaxes, conspiracies, and public debates pass away, the controversies live on in the public memory through fiction books, plays, and other adaptions. I had never heard of Mary Toft's hoax of giving birth to rabbits until lit