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Lever (O velist born was gre llege)

O velist; born was gre llege, Dahl 1831, wly-star LETTRES DE CACHET LETTRES DE CACHET (let duh käsh-ä), the name given to the warrants ā), the name given to the warrants of imprisonment issued by the kings of France before the Revolution. The use of lettres de cachet became much more frequent after the accession of Louis XIV. than it had been before, and it was very common for persons to be arrested upon such warrant and clapped into the Bastille. It was not always for political reasons that lettres de cachet were obtained; sometimes private persons got troublesome members of their families brought to reason in this way. mostly

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