The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chatelet \Chat"e*let\, n. [F. ch[^a]telet, dim. of ch[^a]teau. See Castle.] A little castle.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) A little castle.
Wikipedia
Châtelet is a station on lines 1, 4, 7, 11 and 14 of the Paris Métro in the centre of medieval Paris and the 1st arrondissement. The station is made up of two parts connected by a long corridor:
- lines 7 and 11 under the Place du Châtelet and the Quai de Gesvre (site of the original medieval river port of Paris), next to the Seine;
- lines 1, 4 and 14 towards Rue Saint-Denis and the Rue de Rivoli.
Châtelet is connected by another long underground corridor to the southern end of the RER station Châtelet – Les Halles, the northern end of which is again connected to the Métro station Les Halles. The distance from Line 7 at Châtelet to the RER lines at Châtelet – Les Halles is approximately . It is the ninth-busiest station on the Metro system.
In antiquity, a châtelet was a little castle or fortress, wherein the Châtelain (, female chatelaine ), or governor lodged.
Now, Châtelet or Chatelet may refer to:
Usage examples of "chatelet".
To remedy this defect, application was made to the inferior court of the Chatelet, which refusing to register them, one of its members was committed to the Bastile, and another absconded.
In fear of popular reaction, the edict was issued secretly and the bidding for the lucrative post of tax- collector was held behind closed doors in the Chatelet.
Court declares the judgment pronounced by the magistrates of the Chatelet against the above named Derues to be good and right, and his appeal against the same to be bad and ill-founded.
The legal side of the transaction was placed in the hands of one Jolly, a proctor at the Chatelet in Paris.
He lost no time in putting his case before the Lieutenant of Police, who placed the affair in the hands of one of the magistrates of the Chatelet, then the criminal court of Paris.
For instance, the epistle to Madame du Chatelet, which is magnificent.
Her daughter, the Comtesse de Chatelet, had taken possession of all her real estate and of her pocket-book, which contained, to my surprise, four hundred thousand francs.
Dorival, Councillor to the King, Commissary of the Chatelet, formerly Superintendent of Police in the City of Paris, do certify that there has been taken to the Hospital for Children a male infant, appearing to be one day old, brought from the Faubourg St.
In typically Parisian erratic bursts of speed and halting they reached the Place du Chatelet and turned right over the Pont all Change into the old heart of Paris.
On Chatelet Place she strolled up and down several times, read the theatre-bills, and finally took a seat on a bench.
Bastille or the Chatelet, and yet there have been scores of prisoners confined in them with friends of great influence and abundant means.
The evidence being complete, Derues was condemned by sentence of the Chatelet, pronounced April 30th, and confirmed by Parliament, May 5th.
And it is also decreed that this sentence be printed and published by the deputy of the Attorney-General at the Chatelet, and affixed to the walls in the usual places and cross roads of the town, provostship and viscounty of Paris, and wherever else requisite.
Derues descended the great staircase of the Chatelet with a firm step.
Charon, who was a counsellor, and in charge of a suit between Madame d'Urfe and her daughter Madame du Chatelet, whom she disliked heartily.