At the foot of old Metz there is yet another arm of the Moselle, which divides, forming an island, on which stand the Prefecture and Theatre.
Still harping on the same theme, Joseph Lacrisse begged Henri de Brécé to see if he had not a good prefecture to dispose of; but the President repeated as before that he had nothing but Guéret and Draguignan.
I want you to find a prefecture for a good Royalist.
You simply cannot refuse a prefectureto Gustave Dellion, my dear President!
He had obtained for one of his political friends the prefecture of Troyes, and for a farmer at Gondreville the exemption of his son from the draft; in fact, he had done services to many.
This state of things continued until 1648, when a large part of Alsace, comprising the two landgraviates of Upper and Lower Alsace and the prefecture of the ten free imperial towns, was ceded to France by the treaty of Westphalia.
On the arrival of the despatch from the Board, great was the joy felt by every officer, without exception, of the prefecture in which he had held office.
We at once took a cab to the Prefecture where we were ushered into the presence of Monsieur Coulagne, a rather tall, grey-haired elegant man, with the rosette of the Legion of Honour in his coat.
Back at the Prefecture Monsieur Coulagne was soon speaking rapidly over the telephone.
One word of warning to the Prefecture will put the police on his track.
He remained a prisoner in the depôt of the Prefecture only a few days.
The first care of his uncle Guidobaldo was to obtain for him a renewal of the prefecture of Rome, which his father had held; and as that appointment was in the hands of Alexander VI.
On the 18th of August, his dukedom and ecclesiastical baton were conferred upon the unworthy Lorenzo, who, in the following month, was also invested with the prefecture of Rome.
The prefecture was besieged by persons striving to get these passes, many of whom camped out for forty-eight hours while waiting their turn.
The Commune also issued a decree that while all men under sixty must enter its army, women, children, and aged men could obtain passes to leave the city at the prefecture of police for two francs a head.
Before the prefecture at Versailles was planted the Prussian royal standard,--a black cross on a ground of gold and purple.
The next morning, May 26, as I was searching for some valuable papers among the ruins, two men in plain clothes entered and ordered me to follow them to the Prefecture of Police, temporarily located on the Quai d'Orsay.
The Prefecture of Police, which stands upon an island in the Seine, in the heart of Paris, had in those days a small prison in its main building, and an annex for women.
Without any preliminary investigation, squads of them were shot, chiefly in the court-yard of the Prefecture of Police.
The chief room of the prefecture was filled with men in bright uniforms, with helmets, ribbons, and decorations of all kinds.
We were killing this morning at the Prefecture of Police.
At the prefecture of police he and a fellow-student found a dense crowd waiting to pay two francs for permission to get away.
But though delivered from the Commune, not only was the Prefecture and all in it in peril, but every building and every life upon the island.
He had continued to reside at the Prefecture of Versailles while the Assembly was in session, but he came to the Élysée during its recess, and kept a certain state there.
Thiers went to reside where the Emperor William had had his quarters, at the Prefecture of Versailles, and soon the palace was filled with refugees from Paris.
The first is by Count Joseph Orsi,[1] whose visit to Raoul Rigault's office at the Prefecture of Police has already been told.
Braquond had said to Judge Bonjean a few days before he was sent from the Prefecture to Mazas, "I can stay here no longer.
The prisoner was taken to the Prefecture de Police established at the Barracks of the Cité, and thence in a boat to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where the head-quarters of the municipal police are established.
Chapelle, the Prefecture of Police, and the Hôtel de Ville are all blazing without a possibility existing of any portion of any one of them being saved from the general wreck and ruin.
One of the towers of the Conciergerie, the Prefecture of Police, and a portion of the Palais de Justice are burnt.
The Prefecture of Police is consumed, but the Palais de Justice is not, and the Sainte Chapelle has suffered but little injury.
And when the valet had withdrawn: "They have come from the prefecture in regard to these letters.
Coquenil had reached this point in his musings when he caught sight of a red-faced man, with a large purplish nose and a suspiciously black mustache (for his hair was gray), coming forward from the prefecture to meet him.
Before reaching the Place Notre-Dame he stopped twice, once at a flower market that offered the grateful shade of its gnarled polenia trees just beyond the Conciergerie prison, and once under the heavy archway of the Prefecture de Police.
How can you hope to succeed single-handed, when it was hard to succeed with the whole prefecture to help you?
These officials were drawn from the province or prefecture and from the personal friends of the administrator, and they were appointed by the governor or the prefect.
One and the same area would belong to a particular administrative prefecture (chün) and at the same time to a particular military prefecture (chou).
It would take at least ten minutes, perhaps more, for the man from the Prefecture to reach the house even though he came by automobile, as he no doubt would.
He returned to the Prefecture in great disgust, wondering in what way matters had gone wrong.
At half past seven, Grace left the prefecture in a high-powered car, furnished by Monsieur Lefevre.
It was nearly two miles to the place from the prefecture of police; so that it was some time before the carriage arrived there.
So the man took a piece of paper and wrote upon the top of it the words "prefecture of police," saying, as he wrote it, that every coachman knew where that was.
I have got as much as I can possibly do until four o'clock; and then the office of the prefecture of police is closed.
To get this stamp, the traveller must carry or send his passport to the great central police office of Paris, called the prefecture of police.
Carlos got into the carriage; while Rollo, looking upon the paper in order to be sure that he understood the words right, said, "To the prefectureof police.
You must go to the Swiss legation and to the prefecture of police.
Theodo'sius was induced to make peace with Max'imus, on condition that the latter should content himself with the prefecture of Gaul, and should not invade the territories of the younger Valentin'ian.
The great and martial prefecture of Illyr'icum was divided equally between the two princes, the boundary line of whose dominions consequently nearly coincided with that which separates the Austrian states from the Turkish provinces.
The prefecture had long ceased firing when Espivent was still bombarding it.
At three o'clock the prefecturehoisted a flag of truce.
They contented themselves with hoisting the black flag, addressing a proclamation to the soldiers, and accumulating at the prefecture arms and cannon without projectiles of corresponding calibre.
No wonder the mice were soon seen playing round the prefecture of police.
The prefectureand the delegation of Justice also evinced their humanity in ameliorating the service of the prisons.
Cournet, who had succeeded Rigault at the prefecture of police, despite the gravity of his deportment, did not better the service of general safety.
Men to garrison the posts were found with difficulty, and at midnight the prefecture had but a hundred defenders.
They even were so facile as to leave a post close to the prefecture in the hands of chasseurs forgotten by Espivent.
Two infantry corps had already refused to march, and the Place de la Prefecturewas filled with groups certain of success.
Vulgar sharpers, Jonathan Wilds of the gutter, whom a shadow of police would have scared away, they had no other strength than the weakness of the prefecture and the carelessness of the delegations.
In the evening, at eleven o'clock, Garibaldian officers came to inform the prefecture that the troops at Aubagne were moving.
The town has a sub-prefecture and a tribunal of first instance.
He hastened to the Prefecture and informed his colleague, Destavigny, who, with a party of inspectors took up his position on the Place Maubert.
He was followed for a fortnight; then the order for his arrest was given, and on July 15th he was taken, handcuffed, to the prefecture of police and accused of participation in the robbery at Quesnay.
He was taken to the Prefecture and promised immediate liberty in exchange for one word that would put the police on the track of Georges.
Querey and the three little girls were permitted to wait at the door of the prefecture where, as you must know, they allow no one.
Li-chiang is a small unwalled town, only dignified by the name of a city because it is the administrative centre of a prefecture and a district magistracy.
Concerning the prefecture of Rome, as administered by Apronianus.
This was the little island of Dagelet, off the eastern coast of Korea, about opposite the prefecture of Kang-neung.
They are at present found in the prefectureof Tating (one of the departments of Kweichau towards the Yun-nan side).
