commissariate

Updated: June 17, 2025

This was the paragraph, one of the terrible "notes" with which the papers spice their political bread and butter: "A correspondent in Algiers writes that such abuses have been discovered in the commissariate transactions of the province of Oran, that the Law is making inquiries. The peculation is self-evident, and the guilty persons are known.

Honoré de Balzac - Poor Relations

This was the paragraph, one of the terrible "notes" with which the papers spice their political bread and butter: "A correspondent in Algiers writes that such abuses have been discovered in the commissariate transactions of the province of Oran, that the Law is making inquiries. The peculation is self-evident, and the guilty persons are known.

Honoré de Balzac - Cousin Betty