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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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The act of transfer specified that "security missions" would be carried out by the Integrated Command Centre (CCI), comprising the general staffs of the army and the ex-rebels, and that "in matters of maintaining or reestablishing order, the prefectoral authorities must resort to the CCI.
Ivory Coast ex-rebels transfer power in north by AFP / AFP Global Edition
On the second day of the insurrection, when a volunteer was sought to carry a prefectoral proclamation to the silkweavers' headquarters at the top of the Croix-Rousse hill, Monfalcon accepted the mission.
Worlds turned upside down: bourgeois experience in the 19th-century ... by Popkin, Jeremy D. / Journal of Social History
After earning a law degree at Montpellier, he joined the high-powered provincial administrators, the Corps prefectoral, and became the youngest sub-prefect and then the youngest prefect in France.
The Death of Jean Moulin: Biography of a Ghost by Meyers, Jeffrey / New Criterion
 
 
 
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