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Lettres de cachet (French: [lɛtʁ də kaʃɛ]; lit. '"letters of the sign/signet"') were
letters signed by the king of France,
countersigned by one of his...
- by a
lettre de cachet. Of the
people who were
condemned to
perpetual imprisonment by
lettre de cachet, six
women were
imprisoned at Château
de Villefranche;...
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arranged by
Madame de Montreuil.
Following the
death of
Louis XV in May,
Madame de Montreuil successfully petitioned for a new
lettre de cachet for Sade's arrest...
- led to such
scandal that his
father obtained a
lettre de cachet, and
Mirabeau was
imprisoned in the Île
de Ré. On
being released, the
young nobleman obtained...
- exile, or
simply tried within the
limits of
Paris as a
result of a
lettre de cachet.
Throughout the 18th century,
archivists had been
working zealously...
- 1789,
Provence successfully asked his brother,
Louis XVI, to
issue a
lettre de cachet,
which expelled Gourbillon to join her
husband in Lille. This took...
-
organisation were
never put on trial, but
incarcerated for life by
lettre de cachet, and
their confessions were sealed. All the
prisoners were condemned...
- Arabes ?,
Lettre civile et honnête à l'auteur malhonnête
de la "Critique
de l'histoire
universelle de M.
de Voltaire" (1760), dans Œuvres complètes
de Voltaire...
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suspected of murder, the
Comte de Solages,
imprisoned by his
father using a
lettre de cachet. A
previous prisoner the
Marquis de Sade had been transferred...
- him a
large amount of
power and influence, in 1663 he
instigated a
lettre de cachet,
against her lover, Sainte-Croix,
which called for his
arrest and imprisonment...
