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...Idea. Papa Diderot objected to his son's studies, but let him be until he learned that Denis planned to marry. He then had the young lover imprisoned in a monastery with a lettre de cachet. But Denis escaped, dashed after his chérie, married her and almost immediately stopped loving her. There followed a succession of mistresses. The first was expensive and forced him to write his early books about philosophy to provide her with pocket money. The second was Sophie, Diderot's great love. "Ah," he rhapsodized, "what a woman! How tender...
...Friday, the deadline date, Postmaster B. T. Brinkley and his two daughters spent the day stamping 4,000 letters from stamp collectors with a special cachet. At 5 p.m., just as he had for years, Brinkley pulled down the sliding door of the stamp wicket, locked the windows and latched the door for the last time. Ellenton was given up to the bulldozers and to progress...
Slight, dark-haired Mrs. Juanita S. Tucker is postmistress in the tiny hamlet of Christmas, Florida. Each Christmas for the past 15 years, thousands of letters came for postmarking and she lovingly stamped each with a small green Christmas tree cachet and the legend "Glory to God in the Highest." But then the Post Office Department informed her coldly that as a postal employee, she was not allowed by regulations to place "personal or unofficial indorsements" upon mail. Mrs. Tucker was crestfallen. Last week she wrote the Tampa Daily Times...
...while last year the Communists levied $30 million worth of money and rice from farmers taking their crops to town, government forces now guard the roads so well that the Reds' toll is almost nil. This has been achieved by what one French colonel called un petit cachet medieval: sentries are posted on 40-ft. towers recently built on each road at one-mile intervals. A dawn patrol from each tower digs up the land mines which the Communists plant during the night...
...Lettres de cachet were one of the causes of the Revolution. Under them a husband could lock up his wife, a father his son, or the state could exile or imprison a dissenter, without judicial processes. Theoretically, the king signed each order. Actually, they were filled out, with the space for the name left blank, and clerks could issue them when needed, confining an enemy indefinitely. An estimated 150,000 lettres de cachet were issued during the reign of Louis...