If any private French gentleman wishes to establish a newspaper, he must first write to the Prefet de Police, on paper of a certain size and duly stamped, and give this functionary notice that he intends to establish a newspaper.
The Prefet kept us longer than we wished, and we neither of us like late hours.
He has just been made Prefet of the great department of the a popular appointment.
He was decorated; he was named prefet of his department; he was created senator; he was about to be sent Minister to a German Court when Louis Philippe fell.
The Prefet this time did not withdraw his hand; he extended it, but it was with a certain awkwardness and timidity.
The Prefet hesitated a moment, then answered firmly, "Yes.
So my advice, indeed, was not to intervene in such a case, and the Prefet did me the honor to agree with my remarks.
Ever since the present Prefet has held the reins of this department --so useful and so vilified--he has made it a rule that family matters are never to be interfered in.
The last time that the Prince de Wissembourg dined with the Minister of the Interior, he spoke to the Prefet of the position in which you find yourself--a deplorable position--and asked him if you could be helped in any friendly way.
A more encouraging affair was the visit in the late afternoon of a captain of the regular army of the United States, representing the Judge Advocate General's office, who interviewed him in the presence of an officer of the Prefet de Police.
A grand ball is the chief event, and the "Quadrille Officiel" is opened with the maire and the prefet at the head.
A further development came under the leadership of a certain Comte de Castellane, prefet of the department under the great Napoleon.
The prefet had kept a compartment for us, and Ubaldino Peruzzi, the former sindaco, a great friend of W.
The Prefetof Rome, Gravina, took me and put me on Cairoli's left.
Here are the notes, forwarded to me, at my request, by the Prefetof police," said Camusot.
You will speak of the police as a statesman should, admiring everything, the Prefet included.
The Prefet thought of arresting you, but he decided on sending for you to ask some explanation of your conduct through the peace-officer whom you will find in the coach.
The quieter and more gentlemanly you are, the more terrible will the Prefetbe to his men.
This archway now forms the entrance gate to the residence of the Prefet de la Seine in the huge municipal palace.
My dear fellow, you have changed your opinion of him very suddenly," replied the Prefet with justifiable surprise.
The Prefet treated Peyrade as though he were the lowest warder on the hulks, walking to and fro in a side path of the garden of the Prefecture, which at that time was on the Quai des Orfevres.
Partisans of the right, riding the high horse on points of law, they are not light-handed in arbitary action such as critical circumstances often require; cases in which the Prefet should be as prompt as a fireman called to a conflagration.
In the first place, the Prefet will not hold his appointment much longer; the times are big with revolution, and revolutions make good fishing for us.
Only, by a glance from Camusot, Jacques Collin could guess that some information concerning him had been sent by the Prefet of Police.
Peyrade looked with his keenest eye at the magistrate sent to examine him by the Prefetof Police.
Prefet de Police to ask for an extra man, but he doesn't seem to attach importance to it--says no harm ever comes when a thing is announced beforehand.
We found the same bustle and preparation at the station here--the Governor of Varsovie, and Prefetde Police en tenue, and our Consul, M.
Now I tell you your prefet is all wrong in trying to extort those forty-two thousand francs from the city.
The Prefet read the letter, and, in obedience to its instructions, he burnt it.
In the first place: I beg Monsieur le Prefet to cast his eyes on this.
It was addressed to Paris, and the superscription ran: To Monsieur Chabouillet, Secretary of Monsieur le Prefet of Police.
A doubtful look, as if he but half understood him, was the only reply the old prefetmade to this speech; at which the laughter of the others could no longer be repressed, and burst forth most heartily.
What shall I say of him, save that he was a prefet in the South, and wants to be one again?
His being in possession of the password, and his venturing to write his name in the police report, are evidences that he enjoys the favor of the Prefet de Police.
Monsieur le Sous-prefet was not at his bureau, "mais a la Sous-prefecture en haut de la ville; nous allons vous y conduire tout de suite.
Sous-prefet had never had any word of such an errand; he said that the banks would be shut for another week, but suggested that the Receveur des Impots would be able to provide such change as might be required.
Telling our driver to remain at the cafe to wait orders, I asked where the Sous-prefet could be found.
But the Sous-prefet would not hear of our leaving; "Quand Messieurs les Ecossais viennent a Avesnes il faut boire le champagne.
I think the Sous-prefet was not without some slight quiver of the eyelid as he bade us a cordial farewell.
The French prefet having fled the city on the approach of the enemy, a successor was appointed by the Kommandant, and the administration of the city proceeded under German supervision and according to the usual German methods.
Sous-prefet was receiving the generals, but would be quite ready to receive us too.
The Prefet looked at it one day from his window with a smile of satisfaction, and went away to his mushroom-beds.
There was an old underground cave at Charville, where the Prefet proposed establishing his mushroom-beds.
Prefet would not have spoken without reason," said M.
There was a bright indignant flash in the doctor's eye, of which the Prefet was not unconscious: M.
Raoul Gregoire has returned to the provinces and is now Prefet of the Department of the Alpes-Maritimes an appointment which he much prefers.
Monsieur le Prefet will have to be in the procession--he can hardly stay away even if he wanted to.
On the occasion, at any rate, Monsieur le Prefet must be greatly in evidence.
Monsieur lePrefet was living on the edge of a volcano, and all his precautions would, he feared, be of no avail against them.
It consisted mainly, as they expected, of fierce denunciation of Monsieur le Prefet of Police, whom they named "the Assassin.
The position now was grave enough, and Yvette, Jules, and Dick discussed it at length with the Prefet and his lieutenants.
The Prefet himself, quite as anxious as Dick for the safety of Yvette and Jules, had taken precautions to protect them as far as possible.
It was utterly impossible to force his way through the cheering crowd and he could only watch Monsieur lePrefet in a fever of anxiety.
To Monsieur de Clagny's great satisfaction, the new Sous-prefet was a married man whose wife made friends with Dinah.
The third day the chef de bataillon, his superior officer, arrived: he brought a proclamation, addressed to the insurgents by the prefet and the general.
The attempted assassination of theprefet had an unexpected effect upon public opinion in Marseilles.
Esquiros, a republican, and later by the incapacity of the new prefet appointed by Gambetta, M.
The Guarde sent a deputation of 150 officers to theprefet of the city, who ordered my immediate release.
Some one had tried to kill him, but missed, and the prefet did not care to be conspicuous again.
Monsieur," said the commissary of police in a low voice, "Monsieur la prefet has sent me to tell you some sad news; Monsieur le Vicomte Charles Keller is dead.
You will receive confidential instructions, so Monsieur le prefet told me, in relation to the coming election.
They had received their rifles that morning; and the evening before, Monsieur le Sous-prefet of Sarrebourg had come himself to appoint the officers of the National Guard.
In my opinion, it could not be about that affair that Monsieur le Sous-prefet wanted to talk to us, but about the old or a new Agricultural Society, or something at least which concerned us in particular.
Very well," he said; "but you will tell me everything that the sous-prefet has been saying to you.
At last Monsieur le Sous-prefet came out; he had had an excellent breakfast.
Then Monsieur le Sous-prefet asked: "What is the spirit of your population?
We were all presented to His Excellency thePrefet de Police by my friend Mons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prefet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
