English Dictionary

lettre de cachet

noun

(now historical) A warrant issued by the monarch in ancien régime France, especially one which imprisons someone without trial.

He was imprisoned by a lettre de cachet.

意味（1）

(now historical) A warrant issued by the monarch in ancien régime France, especially one which imprisons someone without trial.

I lost my temper, and spoke so irreverently of the Grand Monarque, that the next morning I was sent to the Bastile, by virtue of a Lettre de Cachet.