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  • Greatest step of all, he deposed the hereditary noble governors, and placed in their stead governors taken from the people -- "Intendants" -- responsible to the central authority alone.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

  • Intendants were well established in France before Richelieu, and the first intendant for New France was Jean-Jacques Dolu, in 1620.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Intendants were well established in France before Richelieu, and the first intendant for New France was Jean-Jacques Dolu, in 1620.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Intendants were not what we would call line officers; they were not in the chain of command, but they had great influence.7

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Intendants were not what we would call line officers; they were not in the chain of command, but they had great influence.7

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • 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.

    Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight

  • Witness the events of the fateful seventies, when his financial straits were perhaps at their worst, when all the powers of Germany, statesmen, theatrical Intendants, press, singers, seemed in league together to thwart the project of

    Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight

  • If the château of St. Louis stood out as the castle of the military officialdom and the Intendants

    The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

  • Intendants and servitors were giving orders on all sides, frequently contradictory, and gardeners were furbishing up the alleyed walks and flower beds in readiness for _Sa Majesté Louis

    Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

  • The reports of the Intendants to their respective Governments, of Lüttichau in the forties, of Royer in Paris in 1861, show how far the authorities were from understanding the nature either of the work which they were undertaking or of the man with whom they had to deal.

    Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight

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