The French Prefectoral Corps was Napoleon's creation. Building on
the framework of local government inherited from the Revolution, he
installed a rigidly centralized administrative system, running from
the Sub-Prefect in the arrondissement, through the Prefect in the
department, to the Minister in Paris. The return of the Bourbons
threatened this organization. There was the upheaval of the years
1814 15, and as the mechanics of parliamentary government evolved
in the years after the Second Restoration, the Corps acquired a
political importance which necessarily affected the prefectoral
career. There was also a change in rectruitment. To staff this
indispensable organ of government the Bourbons called on men of
their own choice and service, in particular members of the
pre-revolutionary nobility. Dr Richardson has analysed the history
of the Prefectoral Corps during the sixteen years of the
Restoration.
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