The Lettre de Thrasybule à Leucippe, ascribed to Fréret, again, is a notably skilful attack on theism.
The Lettre purports, like so many other books of that and the next generation, to be published "A Londres.
The next evening the convention met, and a Secret Committee was raised with instructions to write a lettre de cachet to the President, explaining the flagitious conduct of Sergeant Trap, and demanding his immediate dismissal from the army.
And so, being wide awake, and fully determined to give the True Grits no cause of complaint against him, he went straight with the lettre de cachet to the President.
Diderot, in his "Lettre sur les Aveugles," gives a detailed account of Saunderson.
This event marked the end of a boyhood which had been clouded by an almost entire absence of paternal favor, and wholly free from maternal care--the mother's absence having been secured by the father, by a lettre de cachet.
Again he was in danger of the lettre de cachet, and so he repaired to Brunswick, where he finished his work "De la Monarchie Prussienne," which was published in 1788.
They have been arrested under the king's lettre de cachet, and if you meddle in the matter you are a dead man.
In the first place, however, he proceeded to Paris in order that he might use all his influence to ascertain how matters stood in regard to the lettre de cachet, and, if possible, to obtain its revocation.
If it has not already reached you, you will shortly receive from Paris an order cancelling the lettre de cachet under which your prisoners Godefroid and Gabrielle have been detained.
Crillon with a lettre de cachet to Nantes, whither the young marquis has gone with his bride.
Crillon talk--and very unconcernedly too--of the living death of those who unhappily became the victims of a lettre de cachet.
We have all the clue we want, and you have with you the king's lettrede cachet.
But did Mademoiselle Marguerite never hear of such a thing as a lettre de cachet?
As he said this, poor Jean shuddered at the thought of those terrible words about the lettre de cachet.
Do I not know him to be so good even to a poor stranger, that it is not possible he would let his own son, and a noble one as you are, to become the victim of such a dreadful thing as this lettre de cachet which you tell me of?
Finally, Cauchois-Lemaire was condemned to fifteen months' imprisonment and to a fine of two thousand francs, for having urged a change of government and a change in the order of succession to the throne in his Lettre à Son Altesse royale M.
A mousquetaire, his piece loaded with a lettre de cachet, went about a fortnight ago to the notary who keeps the parliamentary registers, and demanded them.
They were refused-- but given up, on the lettre de cachet being produced.
He said the next day there, at dinner, that for the rest of his life he should fear nothing so much as a lettre de cachet from a French secretary of state, or a coup d'`epaule from an English one.
Why not this evening, seeing that the lettre de cachet bears, both on the direction and inside, 'urgent!
And the lettre of his grete seel, writen abouten, is this, Deus in Celo, Chan super Terram, ejus fortitudo.
La Lettre d'Amour is a composition written to a slow measure, and filled with chords of exquisite pathos.
As the first notes of La Lettre d'Amour brought a pause of silence in the restaurant, Corbin, who was talking at the moment, interrupted himself abruptly, and turned in his chair.
The other numbers on the programme had been chosen to please the patrons of a restaurant, this one, La Lettre d'Amour, was included in the list for his own satisfaction.
He could afford to be generous, and when he rose to play La Lettre d'Amour it was with the elation of a knight entering the lists, with the ardor of a lover singing beneath his lady's window.
The duke and his mother, the dowager-duchess, were furious, and it was rumoured that they had obtained a lettre de cachet, in virtue of which Mlle.
There was no difficulty in obtaining this lettre de cachet, and the poor wretch was arrested and taken to the Bastille.
If I had wished, I might have escaped what has befallen me; I had only to accept the retreat which a person[141] who warned me of the lettre de cachet obtained against me offered me; but I had no desire to do so.
Madame de Bouillon's brother-in-law spoke of it to his brother, and told him that it was absolutely imperative that his wife should clear herself from such a suspicion, and that he ought to ask for a lettre de cachet to shut the abbe up.
The lettre de cachet was granted on September 3; but it was not the Marshal's intention to allow it to be executed at once.
Duronceray had no difficulty in obtaining a lettre de cachet for the arrest and imprisonment of Justine, whose fate was now entirely in the hands of her terrible admirer.
On the back of it, but in a later hand, is written, "A lettre to J.
Unto my worshipfull and welbeloved cosyn, John Paston, be thislettre delivred in hast.
And, Cosyn, he hath a lettre of credence to the baylly of Dedham because of doubt of syght of the baylly yslettre ther for disclosyng, &c.
Endorsed in a 16th century hand:-- A lettre much dispraising W.
Maij, I received a lettre from you by the prestis man of Walsyngham, and the Ascencion Day,[84.
Other thinges ben non here, but ye shal sene by Thomas Scales lettre the rewle of the Frenshemen, &c.
And that ye like to write a good lettre for Richard Fastolf to Sir Roger Chamberleyn, and to Thornton, Chamberleyn of London, and to both of hem, &c.
And trwly, brother, I thank Almyghty God of your welfare, of the which the berer of this my pour lettre certified me of, &c.
And yf it lyked your gode moderhode to here of me and how I do, at the makyng of this lettre I was in gode hele of body tanked be Jesu.
On to my Maystyr Pastone, be this lettre deliveryd.
Right worshipful Sir, and my good maister, I recomaunde me to yow, and have receyvid a lettre from yow by Sir Thomas is man, berer here of.
Let us see what the unctuous Bourdaloue says about it, in his Lettre à l'Académie Française.
In his last sicknesse he was exceedingly paenitent and wrote a lettre of his repentance to Dr.
His merits as well as his defects annoyed them equally: his "Lettre contre les Spectacles" had exasperated Voltaire, the stage at Deuces as in danger.
It was on account of Voltaire's theatrical representations that Rousseau wrote his Lettre centre les Spectacles.
Grimm had attacked French music, Rousseau supported his thesis by a Lettre sur la Musique.
Why did Bigot reject my earnest prayer, for it was earnest, for a lettre de cachet to send her unharmed away out of New France?
Bigot's refusal of a lettre de cachet had stung her pride to the quick, and excited a feeling of resentment which found its expression in the wish for the return of Le Gardeur.
Issue a lettre de cachet and send her over sea to the Bastile.
The eager persistence of Angélique, in her demand for a lettre de cachet to banish the unfortunate Caroline, had wearied and somewhat disgusted Bigot.
Ask her banishment from Beaumanoir, her life if you like, but a lettre de cachet to send her to the Bastile I cannot and will not give!
He remembered her passionate denunciation of the lady of Beaumanoir, her fierce demand for her banishment by a lettre de cachet.
He offered me her life while he refused me a lettrede cachet!
He did not want a scene, and feared to excite her wrath by mention again of the lettre de cachet.
Better had he issued the lettre de cachet than for you to fall into the hands of La Corriveau!
That if you will not issue a lettre de cachet, you shall place the lady of Beaumanoir in the hands of the Mère de la Nativité with instructions to receive her into the community after the shortest probation.
He would not grant me thelettre de cachet nor keep his promise for her removal.
You are to be confined by a lettrede cachet to the isle of St. Margaret, for the place of your exile is already chosen.
Vrillière issued a lettre de cachet, which sent him that night to seek a lodging in the Bastille.
You really are the most audacious of men," replied I, laughing; "I shall be obliged to solicit a lettre de cachet to hold you a prisoner in Guienne.
Vrillière had come to ask for a lettre de cachet against a writer, the king would not have refused it.
Le petit saint, who was never at a loss, issued a lettre de cachet against him, and the unfortunate man was shut up in Fort l'Evéque.
I know not, in the first place, whether his majesty would very easily grant you this lettre de cachet, which most certainly I do not deserve.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lettre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
