Lettres de Cachet, or arbitrary arrest warrants,…

November 1787 CE

Lettres de Cachet, or arbitrary arrest warrants, follow on the 20th for d'Orleans and two others.

They are taken into custody and held under comfortable conditions away from Paris; d'Orleans on his country estate.

Parlement begins a debate on the legality of Lettres de Cachet.

The men being held become a cause célèbre.

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Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette View → Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau View → Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans View → Louis XVI of France View → Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne View →

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