Orders of the King of France, often arrest warrants.
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Examples for "lettre de cachet "
Examples for "lettre de cachet "
1 Issue a lettre de cachet and send her over sea to the Bastile.
2 They were refused-but given up, on the lettre de cachet being produced.
3 Tell me, Philippe, could a lettre de cachet reach me here?'
4 He offered me her life while he refused me a lettre de cachet !
5 What if the myrmidons of Louvois had come with a lettre de cachet !
1 But in the mean time his lettres de cachet have run everywhere through the States.
2 Is there lettres de cachet now in England?
3 True, they had the unpleasantness of often witnessing acts of odious despotism, ' lettres de cachet ' , etc.
4 His lettres de cachet no longer ran.
5 He finished this matter directly; decree followed decree, ' Lettres de cachet ' followed 'lettres de cachet'.
6 "There are no lettres de cachet nowadays, Francois," he added tartly to his brother.
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