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Meanings of lettres de cachet in English

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lettre de cachet

Orders of the King of France, often arrest warrants.

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        Examples for "lettre de cachet"
        1
        Issue a lettre de cachet and send her over sea to the Bastile.
        The Golden Dog
        2
        They were refused-but given up, on the lettre de cachet being produced.
        The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
        3
        Tell me, Philippe, could a lettre de cachet reach me here?'
        Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of B...
        4
        He offered me her life while he refused me a lettre de cachet!
        The Golden Dog
        5
        What if the myrmidons of Louvois had come with a lettre de cachet!
        Prince Eugene and His Times
        Usage of lettres de cachet in English
        1
        But in the mean time his lettres de cachet have run everywhere through the States.
        North America — Volume 2
        2
        Is there lettres de cachet now in England?
        The Claverings
        3
        True, they had the unpleasantness of often witnessing acts of odious despotism, ' lettres de cachet', etc.
        The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 0...
        4
        His lettres de cachet no longer ran.
        North America — Volume 2
        5
        He finished this matter directly; decree followed decree, ' Lettres de cachet' followed 'lettres de cachet'.
        Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 0...
        6
        "There are no lettres de cachet nowadays, Francois," he added tartly to his brother.
        The Right of Way — Volume 04
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