Editing Lettres de cachet (section)

==Victims of ''lettres de cachet''==
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* [[Charles Simon Favart]] (because a nobleman was interested in his wife)
* [[Luke Joseph Hooke]] (deprived of his academic chair in theology for awarding a PhD to a candidate without having read the (heretical) thesis.)
* [[Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau]] (several times, on request of his father, as protection against creditors and once to prevent a death penalty for kidnapping and eloping with a married woman)
* [[Marguerite Monvoisin]] (complicity in a [[Affair of the Poisons|poisoning affair]]. A ''lettre de cachet'' was used to avoid a scandal that might have affected [[Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan]], a mistress of the King who was assumed to have been involved).
* [[Pigault-Lebrun]] (twice, for eloping with two successive young women)
* [[Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière]] (misconduct: sent away to an abbey by his father)
* [[Marquis de Sade]] (rape and torture. The ''lettre'' was petitioned by the marquis' wife, to avoid a court case)
* [[Comte de Sanois]] (domestic disputes and debt. His wife petitioned a Lettre, claiming her husband insane)
* [[Voltaire]] (once for slander, a second time for violent menaces against the Prince de Rohan)
* [[Jean-François Marmontel]], accused to be the author of a satire against the Duke d'Aumont. His account of his short stay in the Bastille contains a description of the food he received, the room he was imprisoned with his servant, and the goodwill shown to him.
* [[Giacomo Casanova]] (dueling)
* [[Marie-Anne de La Ville]] (practiced black magic. A scandalous trial was avoided by a ''lettre'')
* [[Jean-Baptiste Forqueray]] (request of his father)