The imperial lieutenants were of consular or prætorian dignity; the legions were commanded by senators, and the præfecture of Egypt was the only important trust committed to a Roman knight.
The Prætorian præfecture was divided between two ministers.
Roch was formerly the executioner, and la Cigogne is the epithet applied to the Préfecture de Police.
The Préfecture de police, and consequently the lock-up, was formerly in the Rue de Jérusalem.
Préfecture de Police, the headquarters of the Paris police.
Préfecture de police, headquarters of the police, situated formerly in the Rue de Jérusalem; hence the expression.
Every Parisian, high and low, has his “dossier” at the Préfecture de Police.
The Préfecture de Police employs twelve “écosseurs,” whose duty it is to open the daily masses of correspondence conveying real or supposed clues to crimes committed.
So we said we would see it to the end, and following the prisoner and his guard through all the rooms and corridors by which we had come, picked up a second cab on the Quai des Orfèvres, just outside the Préfecture of Police.
Not if you go to the Préfecture and inform against Bras de Fer on my words," exclaimed the model, eagerly.
I might advise you to go to the Préfecture de Police, nay, I might communicate with them myself, but I feel that in the interests of this young lady it would be better to go slow.
He broke the seal and saw that the sheet of notepaper he took from the envelope was headed "Préfecture de Police.
Here are quartered executive offices of the Préfecture de la Seine.
Opposite him stood another known by sight to Lanyard--a highly decorative official from the Préfecture de Police.
Agents of the Préfecture have been all day watching at the Chatham, awaiting your return.
Then you think somebody of the Préfecture recognized Duchemin in you?
In return for gift of this opportunity to place Préfecture under obligations, please do me a service.
The merit of Maximin, who had slaughtered the noblest families of Rome, was rewarded with the royal approbation, and the præfecture of Gaul.
The body of the people was infected with a spirit of discontent: they regretted the justice and the abilities of Sallust, who had been imprudently dismissed from the præfecture of the East.
The Préfecture is a splendid edifice in the Renaissance style, 300 ft.
In the Préfecture is the mausoleum of the Connetable Lesdiguières, originally one of the leaders of the Protestants.
The betting was a hundred to one that the prophecy would be fulfilled; so the general, his staff and the préfet left the defence of the préfecture to a detachment of firemen, and hastened into the hall of the Mairie.
Whilst Bastide was entering the préfecture and carrying the citadel, timid hearts were alarmed to see the direction in which the fiery spirits were going.
The mayor, a sensible man, rushed to the préfecture and pointed out to M.
The Municipal Guard, on its side, was placed at intervals along the route which extended from the Préfecture de Police to the Panthéon.
While the kingdom of the Franks and Visigoths were established in Gaul and Spain, the Saxons achieved the conquest of Britain, the third great diocese of the Præfecture of the West.
I arrived at the préfecture de police at a quarter past six, accompanied by a staff-officer of the Commune.
Deguerry, or Père Olivaint, or any of the priests who had been transported with me from the préfecture de police to Mazas.
It is no easy matter to describe the singular scene at the préfecture de police, usually so quiet, so disciplined and solemn.
Thanks to the signs we agreed upon when we left the préfecture de police, we could give each other absolution.
An emissary of the préfecture of police presented himself with some 353 armed insurgents in the first story of the western side, uttering horrible threats: “The royalists are assassinating the republicans: it is horrible!
At nine o'clock there were more than eight hundred persons taken up, and the Préfecture of Police, the Conciergerie, and La Force were crowded.
They will, doubtless, make immediate provision for departments of State so important as the post-office and the préfecture of police.
Then, in quick, brief sentences I told him of my visit to the Préfecture of Police in Brussels and all that I had discovered regarding the fugitives, to which he listened most attentively.
You will recollect, when you told us at the Préfecture of the name of the victim, how dumbfounded we were.
Will you call at the Préfecture of Police at eight o'clock to-night?
Tours is the chief seat of the préfecture of the Indre-et-Loire, formerly the capital of the province of Touraine, and is built on a plain on the bank of the Loire.
Consequently, a meeting was held at the Hôtel de la Préfecture on 15 October.
So, the unusual, lamentable and fearful spectacle was to be seen, at ten in the morning, of this unfortunate people waiting outside in the place de la Préfecture to hear their sentence.
Préfecture This, built in the eighteenth century, was formerly the hôtel of the "Intendance de Champagne.
Marius, though compelled on this side to exercise a great reserve, pushed on his inquiries as far as the Préfecture of Police, but there the information which he obtained led to no better result than elsewhere.
In spite of all the préfecture of police and the Board of Health have done, it exhales a vague suspicious odor, like Tartuffe after confession.
The present edifice at Châtillon occupied by the Sous-Préfecture was built, as a plaque on the wall indicates, by Madame la Comtesse de Langeac in 1765.
Fouchette doubled around the Préfecture and made straight for the Hôtel Dieu.
Whereupon his partner and the two agents from the Préfecture who had been waiting within fell upon the struggling pair.
It was not until Fouchette was on her way back to the Préfecture that it was learned that in their prisoner, le Cochon, they also had an assassin who up to this moment had eluded arrest.
A telephonic inquiry brought not only immediate confirmation from the authorities at Charenton, but had elicited the important details that brought the specials from the Préfecture down upon the suspected cabaret.
On the bridge she saw the dark shadow of the Préfecture loom up ahead of her, and her face, already beaming with pleasure, lighted with a fresher glow as she thought of her moral freedom.
Getting out, she bade him wait near by, and started down along the quai in front of the Préfecture de Police.
Fouchette's reports to the Préfecture had latterly betrayed a laxity of interest that invited official attention, if they did not call down upon her the official censure.
Fouchette had raised her eyes to the Préfecture that stretched along the quai to the Parvis de la Notre Dame.
It was the Préfecture de Police and not Notre Dame that had to do with little Fouchette and her kind.
She knew what the Préfecture was, though she now saw it for the first time.
Her idea had been to go direct to the Préfecture and demand the whereabouts of Sister Agnes.
Lost or destroyed public document addressed to the Préfecture and confided to her care under her false representation of being an authorized agent of that department of the government.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fecture" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
