lettre de cachet
Americannoun
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lettres de cachet
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of lettre de cachet
literally: letter with a seal
Example Sentences
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When he was 16 his father secured a lettre de cachet for him, applied it two years later.*
From Time Magazine Archive
The venerable president of that parliament, D'Eguilles, refusing to concur in the measure, was, through his means, banished, and his adherents with him, by a lettre de cachet.
From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by R. C. (Robert Charles) Dallas
The duke and his mother, the dowager-duchess, were furious, and it was rumoured that they had obtained a lettre de cachet, in virtue of which Mlle.
From Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel Williams
A lettre de cachet was issued against him, but he fled to Strassburg and found concealment in a cellar.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
The enclosure was a famous place of refuge for insolvent debtors and political offenders, and sheltered Rousseau in 1765 when a lettre de cachet was issued for his arrest.
From The Story of Paris by Katherine Kimball
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