common-councilors

Updated: August 6, 2026

Sometimes it goes further still and reduces a special body into a mere administrative branch, transforming its heads into revocable functionaries whose acts it orders and directs; such under the Empire as well as under the Restoration, were the mayor and common-councilors in a commune, and the professors and head-masters of the University.

Hippolyte Taine - The Modern Regime, Volume 1