"monstre sacré" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1994 [1976], Patrick O'Brian, Picasso: A Biography, London: Harvill, page 372:",
          "text": "[…] Picasso changed, or was changed, from a capital painter, known as such a painter should be known, into a monstre sacré, a holy cow surrounded with an enormous, self-perpetuating, inescapable, and generally irrelevant notoriety.",
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          "ref": "2002 January 27, Jann Parry, The Observer:",
          "text": "Ken Russell's BBC film (with Vivian Pickles) and Kenneth MacMillan's Isadora ballet portrayed her as a grotesque monstre sacre.",
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          "ref": "2023 December 31, Agnès Poirier, “Evoking genius to defend ‘dark stars’ like Gérard Depardieu looks very French – and it is”, in The Observer, →ISSN:",
          "text": "They call him the last monstre sacré (an expression coined by Jean Cocteau to describe Sarah Bernhardt), adding that “attacking Depardieu is attacking art.[…]”",
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