subprefectures

Updated: June 13, 2025

Most of our war-news, or, at least, the earliest intelligence of any important engagement, came to us in the fashion I have indicated, townsfolk constantly assembling outside the prefectures, subprefectures, and municipal buildings in order to read the day's news.

Ernest Alfred Vizetelly - My Days of Adventure : The Fall of France, 1870-71