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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...
- 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...
- 1762, and had, he believed,
secured her
safely in the
provinces by a
lettre de cachet, when in 1772 she
suddenly appeared in Paris, and
commenced proceedings...
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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...
- his wife
committed him
unjustly to the
Asylum of
Charenton under a
lettre de cachet, an
incident which because it
illustrated the
despotic and arbitrary...
- p. 26. Hampson, p. 27. "La première
lettre de Saint-Just à
Robespierre le 19 août 1790 (...) – L'ARBR- Les Amis
de Robespierre". www.amis-robespierre.org...
- 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...
