Prefect (Fr. préfet, from Lat. praefectus; see PREFECT), the administrative head of a modern French department (see FRANCE, Vol. IV. p. 775), whose duties correspond with those of the old Intendant before the Revolution.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 388
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