• of Joan of Arc. A reforming commisar of trades and police and "Garde de la prévôté de Paris" (guard of the provost of Paris), he became Provost of Paris...
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    such as palaces and the mint (e.g., the garde de la prévôté de l'hôtel du roi and the prévôté des monnaies de Paris.) While its existence ensured the...
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    Revolution. The first of these formations was the company-sized Garde de la prévôté de l'Hôtel, formed at the start of the Revolution to provide security...
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  • Prévôt (redirect from Prévôté)
    (Grand Prévôt des Monnaies or de la Monnaie). The role extended into New France, with Prévôté de Québec [fr] and Prévôt de Montréal [fr] in the 17th and...
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    included the gardes de la prevote, the gardes de la porte, the gendarmes de la Garde, and the chevau-legers de la Garde. The Mousquetaires de la Garde had already...
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    around the old part of Nantes, including "Maison des Engins", "Hôtel de la Prévôté", and "Maison Sainte-Catherine". After finding this arrangement inadequate...
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    located in the Place Louis Lépine on the Île de la Cité. This building was built as a barracks for the Garde républicaine from 1863 to 1867 (architect Pierre-Victor...
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    prévôté, the prévôté of Paris was effectively a bailliage. See "Celui qui n'a pas vécu au dix-huitième siècle avant la Révolution ne connaît pas la douceur...
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    Teodoro de Croix (June 20, 1730 in Prévoté Castle, near Lille, France – 1792 in Madrid) was a Spanish soldier and colonial official in New Spain and Peru...
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  • (9 December 2008). "Justice | Portail | La garde à vue" [Justice | Portal | Police custody]. Ministère de la Justice (in French). [Police custody is the...
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    de camp Lenoncourt 'le jeune' one of the capitaines des gardes du roi (captains of the king's guard) the seigneur de Rambouillet and the capitaine de...
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    of Aulnay was part of the province of Île-de-France, Prévôté, Généralité, Élection de Paris, Subdélégation de Saint-Denis. In 1787, during the formation...
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    Ministère de la Justice (in French). Larrieu, Louis; Service historique de la gendarmerie nationale (2002). Histoire de la maréchaussée et de la gendarmerie:...
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