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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LETTRE DE CACHET

Literally: letter with a seal.
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PRONUNCIATION OF LETTRE DE CACHET

lettre de cachet  [lɛtrə də kaʃɛ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LETTRE DE CACHET

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lettre de cachet is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LETTRE DE CACHET MEAN IN ENGLISH?

lettre de cachet

Lettre de cachet

Lettres de cachet were letters signed by the king of France, countersigned by one of his ministers, and closed with the royal seal, or cachet. They contained orders directly from the king, often to enforce arbitrary actions and judgments that could not be appealed. In the case of organized bodies lettres de cachet were issued for the purpose of preventing assembly or accomplishing some other definite act. The provincial estates were convoked in this manner, and it was by a lettre de cachet, or by showing in person in a lit de justice, that the king ordered a parlement to register a law despite that parlement's refusal to pass it. The best-known lettres de cachet, however, were penal, by which a subject was sentenced without trial and without an opportunity of defense to imprisonment in a state prison or an ordinary jail, confinement in a convent or a hospital, transportation to the colonies, or expulsion to another part of the realm, or from the realm altogether. The wealthy sometimes bought such lettres to dispose of unwanted individuals.

Definition of lettre de cachet in the English dictionary

The definition of lettre de cachet in the dictionary is a letter under the sovereign's seal, often authorizing imprisonment without trial.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LETTRE DE CACHET

letterhead
lettering
letterless
letterman
letterpress
letters
letters credential
letters of administration
letters of credence
letters of marque
letters page
letters patent
letterset
letterspacing
letting
letting agency
Lettish
lettre
lettres de cachet
lettuce

WORDS THAT END LIKE LETTRE DE CACHET

Bechet
brachet
bury the hatchet
cachet
crochet
crotchet
fitchet
guichet
hatchet
lettres de cachet
manchet
matchet
Pinochet
planchet
ratchet
ricochet
rochet
sachet
trebuchet
watchet

Synonyms and antonyms of lettre de cachet in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lettre de cachet» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LETTRE DE CACHET

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The translations of lettre de cachet from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lettre de cachet» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

的Lettre德纪念印
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lettre de cachet
570 millions of speakers

English

lettre de cachet
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Lettre डे मुहर
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

lettre ختم دي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Lettre де облатки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lettre de cachet
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লেট্রে ডি স্যাচেট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lettre de cachet
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lettre de cachet
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

lettre de cachet
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

lettreデ名声
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

lettre 드 봉인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lettre de cachet
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

lettre de cachet
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கேச்ட்டை விடுங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Lettre डे cachet
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Lettre de cachet
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lettre de cachet
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

lettre de opłatek
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Lettre де облатки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lettre de semn distinctiv
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

lettre de cachet
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

lettre de cachet
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

lettre de cachet
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

lettre de cachet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lettre de cachet

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LETTRE DE CACHET»

The term «lettre de cachet» is used very little and occupies the 154.494 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LETTRE DE CACHET» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lettre de cachet

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LETTRE DE CACHET»

Discover the use of lettre de cachet in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lettre de cachet and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Legal Documents: Lettre de Cachet, Non-Disclosure Agreement, ...
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Books, LLC, Source: Wikipedia, Books Group, 2011
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Lettre de Cachet
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster, 2010
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The Substance of the Speeches of Sir H. Parnell, Bart., in ...
Now as to the'seveiity of infliction, how does our Lettre de Cachet yield to the Frer .cH one in this respect r The person confined by the French Lettre de Cachet, as 1 said before, was not left to starve. He got a bed, anil fire, and food. If he was ...
Sir Henry Parnell, 1814
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Economic History of the Ancien Régime: Manorialism, Lettre ...
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Books, LLC, General Books LLC, 2010
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French Law: Napoleonic Code, Lettre de Cachet, Declaration ...
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Books, LLC, Source: Wikipedia, 2011
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Œuvres posthumes de M. J. Chénier ...
LA LETTRE DE CACHET', CONTE. ans les beaux jours de Louis quatorzième, Un jeune objet, qu'eût aimé l'Amour même, Grâce à l'hymen, partageait le destin D'un Franc-Comtois, comte de Valespin. L'époux, major au service d'Espagne, ...
Marie-Joseph Chénier, Pierre Claude François Daunou, 1825
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The history of modern Europe: with an account of the decline ...
They accordingly continued in the exercise of their several functions, without regard to the king's prohibition, and had actually commenced a prosecution against the bishop of Orleans, when they received from Versailles a lettre de cachet, ...
William Russell, Charles Coote, 1822
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Sade, Fourier, Loyola
... condemned to death by the Aix Parlement for sodomy (the Marseilles affair), although he was arrested in 1777 in the Rue Jacob after years of flight and more or less clandestine returns to La Coste, it was under the action of a lettre de cachet ...
Roland Barthes, 1989
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The Works of Thomas Carlyle
Next day, a Lettre-de-Cachet sends D'Orleans to bethink himself in his Chateau of Villers-Cotterets, where, alas, is no Paris with its joyous necessaries of life ; no fascinating indispensable Madame de Buffon, — light wife of a great Naturalist ...
Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, 2010
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France in the Enlightenment
Montesquieu denounced all this in Book 6 of L'Esprit des lois: "Judgments rendered by the prince may be an endless source of injustice and abuse." The symbol of such abuse was the lettre de cachet, the principal instrument of la justice ...
Daniel Roche, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LETTRE DE CACHET»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lettre de cachet is used in the context of the following news items.
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“The Man in the Iron Mask” Revealed as an Armenian Bishop
"La lettre de cachet n'en dit pas plus. Sans nom, sans âge, sans domicile ni statut social, qui est le petit homme corpulent qui entre à la Bastille ... «Hetq Online, Jul 15»
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Comment supprimer Adrienne Lecouvreur?
La lettre de cachet fut facile à obtenir. On arrêta le malheureux et on le conduisit à la Bastille. Là, on le questionna; mais il ne fit que répéter ce ... «Sept.info, Jul 15»
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Margaret Atwood on Bill C-51
She pointed to the Lettre de Cachet, a privilege given to French kings in the years leading up to the French Revolution. Lettre de Cachet ... «National Observer, Jun 15»
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The real significance of our drone war, and why you'll hear little …
Obama has recreated the Lettre de cachet of the French Kings, a tyrannical exercise of arbitrary power abolished by the Revolution. «The Fabius Maximus website, Apr 15»
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Davy Condon: The Job Is Right to claim National glory for Michael …
He likes to go from the front, as does the filly Scooping. I expect Noel Meade's Lettre De Cachet to be in the shake up too and those two fillies ... «Irish Independent, Apr 15»
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Fleming Off The Mark At Fairyhouse
under pressure and he dropped away tamely, leaving Lettre De Cachet as his only challenger. However, Gwencily Berbas proved far too good ... «Sportinglife.com, Feb 15»
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Bryan Cooper: Relative calm before Cheltenham storm
I'll be on Lettre De Cachet for Noel Meade in the three-runner Grade 2 juvenile hurdle, a tight and fascinating little race. This filly didn't run ... «Irish Mirror, Feb 15»
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Spring Heeled travels with National in mind
... because Vercingetorix is on a retrieval mission after flopping in the Spring Juvenile Hurdle, and has ground to make up on Lettre De Cachet. «RTE.ie, Feb 15»
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My Murphy to warm up for Aintree with Bobbyjo glory
Lettre De Cachet clearly has the potential to build on that encouraging debut, but the suspicion is that Vercingetorix didn't show his true colours ... «Irish Independent, Feb 15»
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A duty to mock
... nay, without any Accusation, to be seized by the Authority of a Lettre de Cachet, and conveyed not only to Prisons, but Dungeons, where their ... «National Secular Society, Feb 15»

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