Noun
lettre (plural lettres)
Obsolete form of letter.
Lettre de cachet to avoid scandal to touch high-placed accomplices). Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
The Lettre was petitioned by the marquis' wife, to avoid a court case) * Comte de Sanois (domestic disputes and debt. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet