English Dictionary

lettre de cachet

名詞

歴史的

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

日本語の意味

（歴史的用語）旧制度フランスにおいて、君主が発行し、審問なしに個人の拘禁を命じる令状。

When the dissident refused to recant, the king quietly issued a lettre de cachet that sent him to a provincial prison without trial.

反対者が撤回を拒むと、国王はひそかに彼を審理なしで地方の牢獄に送る王の勅許状を発した。

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.

lettres de cachet （ plural ）