"lettre de cachet" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 113",
          "text": "This year the King sent it to Troyes, each member ordered there by an individual lettre de cachet.",
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