About sixty years ago, the Intendants of the Generalities of France made, with other matters, a report of the population of their several districts.
The intendants des finances existed until the end of the ancien regime; they were at first under the authority of the surintendant, and subsequently under that of the controleur general des finances.
Owing to the vast size of the districts allotted to the intendants (there were no more than thirty-two intendants in 1788), they often felt the need of assistants.
The intendants des provinces date from the last thirty years of the 16th century.
Chesnel explained his errand; and when she knew it, the generous daughter of the intendants of the Ducs de Alencon turned to du Croisier with tears in her eyes.
Or do you wish to expiate wrongs done to others by a deed which will rejoice your ancestors, the intendants of the dukes of Alencon, and bring comfort to the soul of our dear Abbe?
In conformity with the constitutional act, the intendants and governors of the departments and provinces are nominated by the president of the republic.
The same argument applies to New Andalusia or Guiana which are governed byintendants named by the president.
The provincial assemblies of Dauphine and elsewhere gave the signal; and numerous towns, following the example of Paris, instituted municipalities which substituted their authority for that of the intendants and their subordinates.
The movement attracted even the ministers, Boulainvilliers at their head, who caused the intendants to make inquiry into the causes of this general ruin.
The panels of wainscoting upon the walls were hung with paintings of historic interest--portraits of the Kings, Governors, Intendants and Ministers of State, who had been instrumental in the colonization of New France.
From first to last there were a dozen intendants of New France.
Below these in the hierarchy of officialdom came the intendants of the various provinces --forty or more of them.
These forty intendants were the men who really bridged the great administrative gulf which lay between the royal court and the people.
This in part accounts for their tendency to litigiousness, which various intendants mentioned with regret.
An account of the proceedings was made out and sent to the king, by whose command copies were immediately transmitted to the intendants of the kingdom with orders to instruct the archbishops to do the same in like cases.
The ministers write to the intendants to ascertain if the gentlemen of their province "like to stay at home," and if they "refuse to appear and perform their duties to the king.
His delegates under him conform to his views; I have read countless letters by intendants who try to appear as little Turgots.
They are as "indifferent to the affairs of the State as to their own affairs, allowing one to be governed by provincial intendants as they allowed he other to be governed by their own intendants.
The intendants constantly made reports to, and received orders from, the central government at Paris.
The total amount to be raised was apportioned among the intendants by the Royal Council, and by the intendants among the villages of their respective districts.
And in measure as the power of the bourgeois intendants increased, that of the noble governors diminished, until, by the eighteenth century, the offices of the latter had become largely honorary though still richly remunerative.
In rural districts there was a trace of the same conflict between the system of intendants and the survivals of local self-government.
In essence it was a continuation of the system of intendants instituted by Cardinal Richelieu.
A survey of the various ordonnances issued by the intendants of this period supplies much insight into the life of the city.
Yet another term for the intendants of these lands was nanushi-shoku.
The phraseology was similar to that used in the commissions of the provincial intendants in France, and so broad was the wording, indeed, that one might well ask what other powers could be left for exercise by any one else.
Intendants might come and go; governors abode their destined hour and went their way; but the apostles of the ancient faith never for one moment released their grip upon the hearts and minds of the Canadians.
Hereupon they assemble, with the few Citizens still left, among whom are two Intendants of Health who have not stirred a Foot, M.
The 1st of July, the Intendants pass a Resolution, to cause all the Vessels which were come with foul Patents, to Anchor at a good Distance off the Island of Pomegue.
Estelle, one of the chief Sheriffs, with two Intendants of Health, are deputed to go to Aix to give an Account of it to M.
The 29th, the Intendants settle the purifying of the Goods of this Cargo, to Forty Days compleat, to be reckoned from the Day the last Bale shall be carried from it into the Infirmaries.
Hereupon the intendants in every parish (which were popish governors and spies set over the protestants) assembled the reformed inhabitants, and told them, they must without delay turn catholics, either freely or by force.
Belleisle has shewn me several memoirs of those times, transmitted to Versailles by the intendants of the provinces.
The states of Bretagne likewise offered their difficulties; but all the effect of the representations of both was, that the court appointed two intendants of the finances to go and settle the levying of that tax on those refractory provinces.
There was indeed a very hard clause, in case of a refusal; the intendants being expressly enjoined to seize on the several revenues in the King’s name, and leave the beneficiaries only an alimentary pension.
She went on recklessly, "Stray lambs are picked up by intendants sometimes, and carried tenderly to the Château!
At forty I came as housekeeper to Beaumanoir, and have lived here comfortably ever since I know what royal intendants are!
That code deprived the oficiales reales and oidores of the duty, formerly incumbent on them, of taking espolios and conferred it upon the intendants and corregidor-intendants of provinces.
Subsequently the Ordinance of Intendants of Buenos Ayres was applied to the Philippines.
This decree ordered that the residencias of the intendants and their assistants should be submitted to the audiencia.
It provided that residencias of corregidores, alcaldes mayores, and subdelegate-intendants should be taken only when charges had been made against them.
As the intendants were educated as lawyers rather than as administrators, and as they were often transferred from one province to another after a short term of service, they did not acquire full knowledge of their business.
It had originally been the function of the intendants to act as legal inspectors, making the circuit of the provincial towns for the purpose of securing uniformity and the proper administration of justice in the various local courts.
They bargained with the royal intendants for the gross amount of the taxes to be assessed on their provinces.
The intendants were represented in their provinces by subordinate officers called sub-delegates, each one of whom ruled his petty district or élection.
The demand was based on no general law, but was imposed arbitrarily by intendants and military commanders.
Many would sweep away the old officers of the crown, the intendants and military governors, the farmers general, and the very clerks.
Wagner's insistent refusal to permit any mutilation of his work always appeared to Intendants and Impresarii who were anxious to meet him halfway like monstrous egotism.
As for our ministry and the intendants of the provinces, the financiers and what may be called the canaille, they felt all the extent of their loss.
As I have said, couriers were despatched to the governors of the frontiers; in addition to this, information of what had taken place was sent to all the intendants of the frontier, to all the troops in quarters there.
There were seven intendants of the finances, who, for six hundred thousand livres, which their places had cost them, enjoyed eighty thousand livres each per annum.
The other Parliaments, with these examples before them, were afraid to act, and allowed the Intendants and their emissaries to have it all their own way.
The intendants gave way to him, and by express orders of the Court allowed him to act much as he pleased, even with the taxes, which he regulated at his will, and in his conduct was oftentimes very violent.
See the Memorials of the Intendants in the year 1698.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intendants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
