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Belles-lettres
Belles-lettres Belles-let"tres, n. pl. [F.] Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.
Lettre de cachet
Cachet Cach"et, n. [F. fr. cacher to hide.] A seal, as of a letter. Lettre de cachet [F.], a sealed letter, especially a letter or missive emanating from the sovereign; -- much used in France before the Revolution as an arbitrary order of imprisonment.

Meaning of lettre from wikipedia

- Lettres de cachet (French: [lɛtʁ də kaʃɛ]; lit. '"letters of the sign/signet"') were letters signed by the king of France, countersigned by one of his...
- The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (French for 'Order of Arts and Letters') is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture...
- Lettre International is the title of a number of cultural magazines published in various languages in Europe. The history of Lettre International dates...
- Belles-lettres (French pronunciation: [bɛl lɛtʁ]) is a category of writing, originally meaning beautiful or fine writing. In the modern narrow sense,...
- first types were a rather poor copy of this.[citation needed] The French lettre bâtarde p****ed out of use by the mid-16th century, but the German variety...
- So Long a Letter (French: Une si longue lettre) is a semi-autobiographical epistolary novel originally written in French by the Senegalese writer Mariama...
- Marcel Lettre (born August 9, 1972) is a former United States federal government official. He served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence...
- A letter of marque and reprisal (French: lettre de marque; lettre de course) was a government license in the Age of Sail that authorized a private person...
- Lettre à M. Dacier (full title: Lettre à M. Dacier relative à l'alphabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques: "Letter to M. Dacier concerning the alphabet of...
- Coal Land: A Letter to Henri Storck (French: Les enfants du Borinage - Lettre a Henri Storck) is a 2000 do****entary film by director Patric Jean about...