a celebrity, celebrities, famous person(s)
“Le novice en politique contre le mammouth « Éducation nationale ». Ça mérite la sympathie. Et puis c’est un people. Les gens aiment et détestent à la fois. Ils sont fascinés. Le bonheur sur papier glacé. Les vacances entre Saint-Trop’, la Martinique et Deauville.” — The political novice against the mammoth "National Education". That merited sympathy. Then, too, he was a celebrity. People loved and hated at the same time. They were fascinated. Happiness on glossy paper. Vacations between Saint-Tropez, Martinique, and Deauville.
Synonyms: célébrité, personne connue, personnalité, personnage public
Related: pipolisation
Since 2000, named after People, an American weekly magazine that specializes in celebrity news, human-interest stories, and gossip. That word itself is derived from Old French peuple, thus making it a reborrowing. Doublet of peuple and pueblo.