Where there were six intendants of finance, each costing more than a million livres a year, Necker installed four salaried secretaries answering to him alone. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)
Outside of the cities the monarch, whose private fortune was identical with the state finances, possessed immense domains managed by intendants and supporting a population of serf-colonists. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Conseil Supérieur de Québec, Complément des ordonnances et jugements des gouverneurs et intendants du Canada Quebec, 1856. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)
French intendants functioned as instruments of royal absolutism. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)
Champlain understood the importance of intendants, and was quick to see that they could be useful for the purposes of his grand design. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)
It is told of Anushirwan, the Just King, that once upon a time he feigned himself sick, and bade his stewards and intendants go round about the provinces of his empire and the quarters of his dominion and seek him out a mud-brick thrown away from some ruined village, that he might use it as medicine, informing his intimates that the leaches had prescribed this to him. ❋ Unknown (2006)
About two millions sterling per annum of his revenue are said to be anticipated for paying the interest of the public debts; and the rest is found inadequate to the charge of a prodigious standing army, a double frontier of fortified towns and the extravagant appointments of ambassadors, generals, governors, intendants, commandants, and other officers of the crown, all of whom affect a pomp, which is equally ridiculous and prodigal. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Under Philip VI, a system of intendants was established throughout the Indies (176990), which reduced the viceroys 'powers. ❋ Unknown (2001)
With the establishment of the intendants, those officials assumed administration of fiscal affairs. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Richelieu's fundamental goal was the establishment of a strong monarchy through the subordination of its historic enemy, the nobility; the reduction of the parliaments and the Huguenots; and the strengthening of the state bureaucracy (intendants). ❋ Unknown (2001)
See Milot, "L'evolution du Corps des intendants militaires," especially 401-402; Fabre and Julliet, Histoire, ❋ William B. McAllister (1993)
"L'evolution du Corps des intendants militaires" Revue du Nord 50 ❋ William B. McAllister (1993)
The intendants and the "Officer of Administration" wanted to maintain the subordination of the doctors, and were supported by the pharmacists, who claimed that they needed continued independence from the physicians to exercise the proper amount of control over the dispensation of prescriptions. ❋ William B. McAllister (1993)
Officers in other branches resented the frequent intrusions into their affairs by penny-pinching (and often lower-ranking) intendants. ❋ William B. McAllister (1993)
Throughout 1872 and into 1873, the battle was fought out behind the doors of a "mixed commission" created by the government to concoct a more rational organization for the Service de santé. 24 The committee, consisting of 2 generals, 1 colonel, 3 intendants, 2 pharmacists, 1 "Officer of Administration" and 4 medical officers was to draw up regulations that would be inserted into one section of an general army reform bill. ❋ William B. McAllister (1993)
Ensure this, the housing problem, water, sewage, power services -- all these needs which drive intendants, mayors, and the whole world insane. ❋ Unknown (1971)
