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lettre_de_cachet
lettre de cachet
English
Noun
lettre de cachet (plural lettres de cachet)
- (historical) A warrant issued by the monarch in ancien régime France, especially one which imprisons someone without trial.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 113:
- This year the King sent it to Troyes, each member ordered there by an individual lettre de cachet.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 22:
- Louis stepped up persecution of prominent Jansenists, using lettres de cachet to imprison the most subversive [...].
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 113:
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɛ.tʁə d(ə) ka.ʃɛ/
Noun
lettre de cachet f (plural lettres de cachet)
- (historical) lettre de cachet