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Prefect
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PREFECT, French law. A chief officer invested with the superintendence of the administration of the laws in each department. Merl. Repert. h.t.
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This was at a time when nearly the entire prefectoral corps was purged of collaborators - even the ones who had been deported by the Nazis were screened on their return - and when there was ample opportunity for the settling of old scores through bogus denunciations.
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35) The new establishment simply required internal regulations that did not demand prefectoral sanction.
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