lettre
Noun
Meaning
lettre (plural lettres)
Obsolete form of letter.
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Lettre de cachet to avoid scandal to touch high-placed accomplices).
In addition, Charles Darnay suspected that his uncle, a marquis, would have used a lettre de cachet to put Darnay himself into prison if it weren't for the fact that the Marquis had fallen out of favour with the royal court.
Lettre à d’Alembert sur les spectaclesLetter to Monsieur d’Alembert on the Theatre) appeared in print, Rousseau had already left Paris to pursue a life closer to nature on the country estate of his friend near Montmorency.
Other than during wartime, the Rosetta Stone has left the British Museum only once: for one month in October 1972, to be displayed alongside Champollion's Lettre at the Louvre in Paris on the 150th anniversary of its publication.
The Lettre was petitioned by the marquis' wife, to avoid a court case) * Comte de Sanois (domestic disputes and debt.
In an anonymous review of the lettre Young attributed the discovery of the hieratic as a form of hieroglyphs to de Sacy and described Champollion's decipherments merely as an extension of Åkerblad and Young's work.