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PRONUNCIATION OF LETTRES DE CACHET

lettres de cachet  [letrə də kaʃe] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LETTRES DE CACHET

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preposition
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exclamation
Lettres de cachet is a noun.
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WHAT DOES LETTRES DE CACHET MEAN IN ENGLISH?

lettres 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.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LETTRES 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
lettre de cachet
lettuce

WORDS THAT END LIKE LETTRES DE CACHET

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

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

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Translation of «lettres de cachet» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LETTRES DE CACHET

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Translator English - Chinese

纯文学去纪念印
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lettres de cachet
570 millions of speakers

English

lettres de cachet
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

डे मुहर साहित्य
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

ختم دي الآداب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

литература де отличительный знак
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lettres de cachet
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লেট্রেস ডি ক্যাচেট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

les lettres de cachet
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lettres de cachet
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

lettres de cachet
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Translator English - Japanese

デ名声をlettres
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

드 봉인 LETTRES
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Translator English - Javanese

Lettres de cachet
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

lettres de cachet
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

லெட்ரீஸ் டி கேச்சிட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लेट्रेस डे सांता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Lettres de cachet
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lettres de cachet
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Translator English - Polish

lettres de cachet
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

література де відмітний знак
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

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

Lettres de cachet
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

briefwisseling de cachet
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

lettres de cachet
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

lettres de cachet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lettres de cachet

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LETTRES DE CACHET»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LETTRES DE CACHET» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LETTRES DE CACHET»

Discover the use of lettres de cachet in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lettres de cachet and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Enquiries Concerning Lettres de Cachet: The Consequences of ...
The Consequences of Arbitrary Imprisonment, and a History of the Inconveniences, Distresses, and Sufferings of State Prisoners : Written in the Dungeon of the Castle of Vincennes Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti comte de Mirabeau.
Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti comte de Mirabeau, 1787
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Memoirs of the Bastille
L'Organization de la famille et les Lettres de cachet. Revue des Etudes Historiques, soixante-dixième année, 562-576. (Continued in 1905 issue, 60-73). Frégier, Histoire de l'Administration de la Police de Paris depuis Philippe- Auguste ...
Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet, 2005
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Letters and Correspondence, Public and Private ... During ...
LES lettres de cachet de la Reine, pour le Roi & la Reine de Sicile, & pour Madame Royale, vous auront été rendues par celui de mes premiers commis, qui se trouve présentement à Londres ; & fi vous ne les avez pas encore envoyées, vous ...
Henry St. John Bolingbroke, Gilbert Parke, 1798
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The Oxford History of the French Revolution
The next day Orléans and the two leaders of the protests after the king's departure, Fréteau and Sabatier, were exiled to the country by lettres de cachet. On the day following, the peers were forbidden to take their seats in the parlement.
William Doyle, 2002
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The Substance of the Speeches of Sir H. Parnell, Bart., in ...
Few could obtain the Lettres de Cachet of France, and fewer again were the victims of them ; nor could they be obtained but against Crime, or at least on suspicion or allegation of Crime. But here, every hand, however rillanous and violent, ...
Sir Henry Parnell, 1814
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France in the Enlightenment
In religious matters, in the use of lettres de cachet to exile appellants, and in repressive measures intended to compel their obedience, they saw opportunities to assert their rights as magistrates. The remonstrances of April 4, 1759, asserted  ...
Daniel Roche, 1998
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Canadian Constitutional Development: Shown by Selected ...
The Canadians brought them from France ; and is it not among those laws, that the governor may issue a lettre de cachet to send away whom he pleases, to shut up whom he pleases ?x I know lettres de cachet are issued against persons not ...
Hugh Edward Egerton, William Lawson Grant, 2005
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Domestic anecdotes of the French nation, during the last ...
An anecdote, on good authority, is given relative to lettres de cachet, which does great honour to this monarch. The Count de Sanois, tormented by the continued irritation of domestic discord, flew from his family, and concealing himself under ...
Isaac Disraeli, 1800
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Paine: Political Writings
... he proposed to abolish the Bastile and all the state prisons throughout the nation (the keeping of which was attended with great expense), and to suppress lettres de cachet; but those matters were not then much attended to; and with respect ...
Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick, 2000
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The English Review, Or, An Abstract of English and Foreign ...
There can, however, be no similarity between the ostracism at Athens, and the lettres de cachet of a French monarch : the former, though generally the result of faction or caprice, was the act of a number of citizens ; but the latter that of one man ...
‎1787

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

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lettres de cachet is used in the context of the following news items.
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Bastille Day!
... freeing men and women languishing in a prison under royal lettres de cachet against which there was no appeal. The ordinary Parisians who ... «Daily Press, Jul 15»
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A duty to mock
His fatwas, or lettres de cachet, are best described in Henry Fielding's inimitable prose: "Give me Leave, therefore, to inform you, that the ... «National Secular Society, Feb 15»
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How UR and IMR Work together to Deny Injured Workers Care
This kind of secret denial harkens back to the French Revolution when secret "lettres de cachet" filed by nobles enabled imprisonment of named victims without ... «WorkCompCentral, Aug 14»
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Keil Hubert: Visions of Prisons
... of armaments and to free the prisoners held there under lettres de cachet – royal orders that could imprison a person without trial or appeal. «Business Technology, Jul 14»
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The US Secret State and the Internet: “Dirty Secrets” and “Crypto …
... by secret laws overseen by secret courts which operate on the basis of secret administrative subpoenas, latter day lettres de cachet. But now ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Nov 13»
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The Unforgotten
It was an edition of selected lettres de cachet from the files of the Bastille. (In A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens portrays the notorious legal ... «Inside Higher Ed, Sep 13»
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Dans l'enfer des cachots de la Bastille
Lettres de cachet, registre de sortie, suppliques de prisonniers côtoient d'effrayantes menottes ou instruments de torture. Et le tout permet de ... «Le Figaro, Nov 10»
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Big Brother: Obama Demands Access to Internet Records, in Secret …
Constitution-shredding lettres de cachet, NSLs are administrative subpoenas that can be executed by agencies such as the FBI, CIA or ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Aug 10»
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The case for a Bill of Rights
... or the ideals of Machiavelli, or the "freedom" left after lettres de cachet and the Code Napoleon, or the rule of law which prescribed torture as ... «Independent, May 10»
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Big Brother and the Hidden Hand of the “Free Market” "Managing …
The secretive lettres de cachet demanded everything: emails, internet searches, call records, bank statements, credit card purchases, travel ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Apr 10»

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« EDUCALINGO. Lettres de cachet [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/lettres-de-cachet>. Apr 2024 ».
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