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Definition of Lettre de cachet

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 de cachet 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...
- arranged by Madame de Montreuil. Following the death of Louis XV in May, Madame de Montreuil successfully petitioned for a new lettre de cachet for Sade's arrest...
- by a lettre de cachet. Of the people who were condemned to perpetual imprisonment by lettre de cachet, six women were imprisoned at Château de Villefranche;...
- led to such scandal that his father obtained a lettre de cachet, and Mirabeau was imprisoned in the Île de Ré. On being released, the young nobleman obtained...
- an impression printed on, embossed upon, or affixed to a do****ent Lettres de cachet, letters signed by the king of France, countersigned by one of his...
- p. 26. Hampson, p. 27. "La première lettre de Saint-Just à Robespierre le 19 août 1790 (...) – L'ARBR- Les Amis de Robespierre". www.amis-robespierre.org...
- government. He is seized from his young family and imprisoned under a lettre de cachet. At the start of the novel, Manette has been recently released from...
- exile, or simply tried within the limits of Paris as a result of a lettre de cachet. Throughout the 18th century, archivists had been working zealously...
- Arabes ?, Lettre civile et honnête à l'auteur malhonnête de la "Critique de l'histoire universelle de M. de Voltaire" (1760), dans Œuvres complètes de Voltaire...
- accused outside of the public justice system by imprisoning them under a lettre de cachet. Viviane Romance portra**** La Voisin in the 1955 film The Affair of...