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...et-Saint-Jean, formerly one of the darkest and most tortuous of the streets about the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged round the little gardens of the Paris Prefecture, and ended at the Rue Martroi, exactly at the angle of an old wall now pulled down. Here stood the turnstile to which the street owed its name; it was not removed till 1823, when the Municipality built a ballroom o...

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...bout the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged round the little gar- dens of the Paris Prefecture, and ended at the Rue Martroi, exactly at the angle of an old wa...

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...gentine Republic, Argentine Air Force, National Gendarmerie, Argentine Naval Prefecture, National Aeronautical Police Military manpower: males 15-49, ... ...itary rule since September 1981 Capital: Bangui Administrative divisions: 14 prefectures, 47 subprefectures Legal system: based on French law; constit... ...ublic of Chad Type: republic Capital: N'Djamena Administrative divisions: 14 prefectures, 54 subprefectures, 27 administrative posts, 9 municipalities... ...ital: Libreville Administrative divisions: nine provinces subdivided into 36 prefectures Legal system: based on French civil law system and customary ... ...lic Capital: Conakry Administrative divisions: 33 provinces, divided into 36 prefectures Legal system: based on French civil law system, customary law... ...ssoukro in March 1983 but not recognized by US) Administrative divisions: 34 prefectures subdivided into 161 subprefectures Legal system: based on Fre... ...an Type: constitutional monarchy Capital: Tokyo Administrative divisions: 47 prefectures Legal system: civil law system with English-American influenc... ...ministrative divisions: 36 provinces (does not include Western Sahara) and 2 prefectures (Rabat-Sale and Casablanca) Legal system: based on Islamic la... ...litary leaders hold key offices Capital: Kigali Administrative divisions: 10 prefectures, subdivided into 143 communes Legal system: based on German a...

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...notre dAme And point zero 80 P a r i s Ades web magazine ile de lA cité - prefecture 81 P a r i s Ades web magazine ile de lA cité from pont d 'Arco...

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...Hesse’s fascinating work reveals, there was intermittent interference by the Prefecture of Police with those who copied most flagrantly. One such pub- ...

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...corner of a street, in the middle of a town, in one of the least important prefectures in France, but the name of the street and the name of the town ... ...III., then at Mittau; there the Department was still the Province, and the prefecture the intendance. The Marquis was honored among them for his admir... ...been losses at cards at the T roisvilles, or the Duc de Verneuil’s, or the prefecture, or the receiver- general’s, and the Count had come to his provi... ...n the triumph of du Croisier and the Left. He was in no better odor at the Prefecture than at the Court-Royal. He was compelled to keep on good terms ... .... She no more cared to leave the place than the prefect cared to leave his prefecture so long as his mistress lived. Blondet felt himself unequal at h... ...ndet spent his substance on the dress and finery in which she shone at the prefecture. One interest alone had power to draw her away from the tender c... ...s house was one of the prettiest in the town. It stood almost opposite the prefecture, with a neat little court 105 Balzac in front. A row of old-fas... ...was seen driving down the Rue Saint-Blaise; it had evidently come from the Prefecture, the Count himself was on the box seat, and by his side sat a ch...

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...of which the mail road turns to follow a straight line into the little sub-prefecture of La Ville-aux-Fayes, over which, as you know, the nephew of ou... ...f Burgundy made war upon France. Ville- aux-Fayes, now the seat of the sub-prefecture, then a mere fief, was a dependency of Soulanges, like Les Aigue... ... those accidents which come about naturally, the general met, while at the prefecture where his friend put him up, a non-commissioned officer of the e... ...ts, you could manage the country,” he said to him. The general went to the Prefecture and obtained from the general in command of the division the ret... ... eral and the others will probably be reported before you have reached the Prefecture. Y ou don’t know what the inhabitants of this district are.” “Do... ...brought a smile to the general’s lips. “Michaud, I shall go at once to the Prefecture!” he cried, with a sort of fury, “if it is only to get the polic... ...veral times refused to go and live in a splendid parsonage attached to the Prefecture, where Monseigneur wished to settle him, made him dearer still t... ...y’s son, who for the last two years had been pros- ecuting-attorney at the prefecture, was Gaubertin’s hench- man. The clever Madame Soudry had secure... ...the magistracy both removable and ir- removable, the municipality, and the prefecture, the four feet of power, walked as the mayor pleased. Let us now...

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...t personage in Arcis. He had obtained for one of his political friends the prefecture of T royes, and for a farmer at Gondreville the exemption of his... ...special ministry. But after his return from Marengo, Bonaparte created the prefecture of police, placed Dubois in charge of it, and called Fouche to t... ...er police surveillance for two years, obliged to present themselves at the prefecture every month and ordered to remain in the commune of Cinq- Cygne ... ...ion to get rid of witnesses. “Let us do justice to the intelligence of the prefecture of police,” said Lechesneau; “they have never ceased to warn us ... ...ion of the prefect of the Aube, who sent messengers to all the surrounding prefectures ask- ing them to search for the five abductors and the senator,... ...at rare intervals in the course of her ceaseless anxiety, and taken to the prefecture to undergo an examination. An order to keep the accused from hol...

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...his underhand jobbery still clung to him, and he was never received at the prefecture. All the succeeding governments, even that of the Hundred Days, ... ..., after the first return of the Bourbons, he was still ex- cluded from the prefecture, that mortification inspired him with a hatred as deep as it was... ... 37 Balzac CHAPTER III MADEMOISELLE CORMON IN NEARLY ALL the second-class prefectures of France there exists one salon which is the meeting-ground of... ... This decease was doubted in the house of the receiver-general; but at the Prefecture it was authenti- cated that the poor beast had expired as she tu...

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...eur de Watteville’s house was then sold, and they settled in the Rue de la Prefecture in the fine old mansion of the Rupts, with an immense garden str... ... rooms at the end of the Rue Neuve, just where it opens into the Rue de la Prefecture. Young Monsieur de Soulas could not possibly live without a tige... ...esancon. Some time before the opening of this story, the need arose at the prefecture for bringing an editor from Paris for the official newspaper, to... ...to the heart. “By whom I know not at all,” the priest replied. “But at the Prefecture your plans are known, and your hand read like a book. At this mo... ...mittee diminished in number. Nothing could resist the slow grinding of the Prefecture. Three of four clever men would say to Albert’s clients, “Will t... ...m a clever Ministerialist, who proved to them that their safety lay at the Prefecture, and not in the hands of an ambitious man. Each day was a check ... ...voncourt, added to the eighty votes—the real number—at the disposal of the Prefecture, would carry the election, if only the Prefet could succeed in g... ...the rest are Ministerial. But, my son, you have two hundred votes, and the Prefecture no more than a hundred and eighty.” “I have two hundred votes?” ... ...ier started on the stroke of three. “Monsieur Savaron went straight to the Prefecture, and from that to Monsieur Gentillet, who sold him the old trave...

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...as the po- litical police. So no one, whether in the Home Office or at the Prefecture of Police, ever moves excepting in the inter- ests of the State ... ...three years he had been especially anxious to find a corner, either at the Prefecture of Police, or in the general Police Office—some ostensible and r... ...sooner or later be felt. He was anxious to create an inquiry office at the Prefecture of Police, to be in- termediate between the Paris police in the ... ...before he gave me the shiners, had been to ask questions at the house (the Prefecture of Police).” “I shall want you, no doubt,” replied Peyrade. “Loo... ...en without any one finding it out, either at the Police Ministry or at the Prefecture.” Contenson went back to a post near the carriage in which Monsi... ...the coachman to go on slowly to the Arc de l’Etoile. “You have been to the Prefecture of Police, Monsieur le Baron? That was not fair. Might I ask wha... ...e Gondreville is quite in a position to ob- tain me a place I covet at the Prefecture of Police; within forty-eight hours the prefet will have notice ... ...one side, while his master looked out on the other. “The Baron went to the Prefecture of Police this morning between four and five,” said the man, “an... ... her husband’s support, for he is a Minister of State, to carry you to the Prefecture of Police. “When you have got there, face to face with the Prefe...

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...this time the Cointets were not only contract printers to the town and the prefecture, and printers to the Diocese by special appointment —they were p... ...they put in exactly what they please, and it is not at all likely that the prefecture or the palace have forced their hands. Can you imagine that your... ...of his accusation. Dinner was scarcely over when a messenger came from the prefecture with a note addressed to M. Chardon. That note appeared to decid... ...words of the songwriter, “I thank thee, my coat!” He left two cards at the prefecture, and another upon Petit-Claud. The next day, the day of the 116... ...is. “Do I owe to you, madame, the pleasure of an invitation to dine at the Prefecture the day after to-morrow?” he said. “You owe it solely to your fa... ...ted with a spasm of mortification. “Suppose that he should not come to the Prefecture after this, what talk there would be!” she thought. “Where did h...

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... of saints and peasants. 69 Robert Louis Stevenson FLORAC ON A BRANCH of the Tarn stands Florac, the seat of a sub- prefecture, with an old castle, a... ... the afternoon. Every one had some suggestion for my guidance; and the sub-prefectorial map was fetched from the sub-prefecture itself, and much thumb...

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...- gers on his lips as a warning to keep silence. “Well, what news from the prefecture?” said the procureur- du-roi, when Goulard returned to the group... ...ointment as sub-prefect of Sancerre with the promise of advancement to the prefecture. Some shrewd observers declared that the viscount pre- tended th... ...e like a man who knows he has thirty thousand francs a year, and expects a prefecture. “Mademoiselle is right,” he said, looking at Cecile; “she is ri... ...might. She is a sly one, though.” “Tell her to come and see you at the sub-prefecture.” “Yes, monsieur. I’ll go and tell her now.” “Don’t say anything... ...ul to an old comrade who wishes to get you the rosette of an officer and a prefecture.” “You are beginning your political career betimes,” said Antoni... ...ranger handed the sub-prefect the following let- ter:— (Confidential.) Prefecture of the Aube. Monsieur the Sub-prefect,—You will consult with the... ...heteau, “was not altogether mistaken; for I have long been employed at the prefecture of police in the health department; but I have nothing to do wit... ... Every evening he plays domi- noes, like any bourgeois, in a cafe near the Prefecture, and Sundays he goes out to a little box of a place he has bough...

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...t him into occasional intercourse. He also occasionally took a meal at the prefecture; for he had been appointed, much to his regret, a member of the ... ...s in the provinces. A few days after his arrival, dur- ing a soiree at the prefecture, he made answer to a rather foolish question, that the most able... ... country road which connects the chief town of the arrondissement with the prefecture. Like all the villages of this upland plain, Montegnac is built ... ...eneral in the good work she wished to do, and persuade him to write to the prefecture of police in Paris to recover traces of the girl. The circumstan... ...y-five years old, engineer-in- ordinary. I was sent, as you know, to a sub-prefecture, with a salary of twenty-five hundred francs. The question of mo...

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...e man, who began to seem terrible. “Since 1830 they want honest men at the prefecture! I resigned, and I’ve made myself a small vocation by arresting ...

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...said, motioning as he did so to a friend of T roubert, a councillor of the Prefecture, who was present. The lieutenant therefore continued:— “If the A...

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...oke volumes. “No one knows, as I do, the distance between the town and the Prefecture— whence nothing comes out—and from the Prefecture to the Council... ...ht be turned into corn-growing land. He is the head of a department in the Prefecture, as you know. It was a kindness for his own countryside quite as...

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...hose cold nature, selfish- ness, and narrow ambition, never rising above a prefecture and a good marriage, repelled her. At a word from his family, wh... ... devotion of Monsieur le Vicomte de Chargeboeuf; but he was appointed to a prefecture and left the district. T o Monsieur de Clagny’s great satisfacti...

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...nie Grandet through the arrondissement, and even to the four surround- ing prefectures. “Stay, monsieur le president,” said Eugenie to Monsieur de Bon...

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...r. In the great world, when he went to the Prince de Wissembourg’s, to the Prefecture, to Comte Popinot’s, and the like, he held his hat in his hand i... ...consequence of the plan for fortifying Paris; consulting clerk also to the Prefecture of Police; and a member of the Board of the Civil List. These th... ...next morning Victorin went out, and on his way to the Courts called at the Prefecture of the Police, where he begged Vautrin, the head of the detectiv...

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...atelet, or Mme. de Bargeton—who has procured the Baron’s nomination to the prefecture and the title of Count, so as to return in triumph to Angouleme—... ...uncillor Extraordi- nary, was now Comte du Chatelet, with a promise of the prefecture of the Charente so soon as the present prefect should have compl...

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...le in a few months; no doubt his protectors will find him a place,— in the prefecture of police, perhaps,—for the clergy will not desert him.” From th...

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... ville-basse, a gentleman, and, as I afterwards learned, an employe at the prefecture,—a person, in short, much esteemed at Carcassonne. (I may say al...

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... always go together and are armed. I myself obtained permis- sion from the prefecture of police that they should carry arms.” [Yes, this would explain...

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...lt, Desroches set all the powers that he could influence in motion. At the prefecture of police he learned that Philippe spent his evenings in the gam...

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...s colleagues in the municipal council and among the upper employees of the prefecture of the Seine, the new councillor had made several very important... ...powerfully rich; he’ll get you made sub-prefect somewhere; and thence to a prefecture and a fortune is but one step.” “Thanks for the information,” sa...

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...w, in this history of his, Procopius mentions that, during the term of his prefecture at Constantinople, a great sea-mon- ster was captured in the nei...

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...w, in this history of his, Procopius mentions that, during the term of his prefecture at Constantinople, a great sea monster was captured in the neigh...

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...ed in the genius of Napoleon; his favor enhanced the value of all offices. Prefectures, those miniature empires, could only be filled by men of great ... ...vizier. The myrmidons of the great man scoffed at Diard’s pretensions to a prefecture, where- upon he lowered his demand to a sub-prefecture. There wa...

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... of the magistrate in the man, a good deal more of the Coun- cillor of the Prefecture, all the self-importance of the mayor of the arrondissement, the...

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...the baroness told Madame Aubain that as her husband had been promoted to a prefecture, they were leaving that night, and she begged her to accept the ...

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...ly of all the official printing in the department, besides the work of the prefecture and the diocese—three connections which should prove mighty prof... ... the books, lad, and see what we make by placards and the registers at the Prefecture, and the work for the mayor’s office, and the bishop too. Y ou a... ... this very time to 31 Balzac extend the town towards Perigord, building a Prefecture, a Naval School, and barracks along the hillside, and opening up...

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...cases were not few in which attempt was made to engage his services at the Prefecture. One of the most remarkable instances was that of the murder of ... ... offering ten thousand francs, in addition to the amount pro- posed by the Prefecture. The entire reward thus stood at no less than thirty thousand fr... ... preceded the departure of the Prefect. In the morning, I procured, at the Prefecture, a full report of all the evidence elicited, and, at the various... ...girl, and yet told of nothing but easy triumph to the functionaries of the Prefecture. “In the case of Madame L ’Espanaye and her daughter there was, ...

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...eal feeling. For my own part, I abhor the stale intrigues which end in sub-prefectures and receiver-generals’ places and marriages; or, if love comes ...

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...p. It was highly apologetic, but requested him to follow the bearer to the Prefecture without delay. “In short,” said Florizel, “I am arrested.” “Y ou... ...e was no help for it,” replied Florizel. “And now let us go forward to the Prefecture.” NOT LONG AFTER, the marriage of Francis Scrymgeour and Miss Va...

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...sta, which had lain heavily on their self-love. A leading personage at the prefecture declared that the notaries could have chosen no other language a...

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...d body have been completely set at rest by the facts. The physician of the Prefecture of police was despatched by us to assist the physician of the ar...

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... said— “She is a woman of great parts, who wouldn’ t be misplaced in a sub-prefecture.” The housewives admired her economy, the patients her po- liten... ... that the prefect was not able to come. He himself was a councillor at the prefecture; then he added a few apologies. Monsieur Tuvache answered them w...