intendance

Monsieur Colbert, you have then nine hundred thousand livres at the intendance?"

I do not command reitres, nor clerks of the intendance, mordioux!"

He was though accused by the Real Intendance of neglecting the exploration of new mines confining himself to exploit the existing ones.

The largest hotel is the Banyan Tree Resort at Anse Intendance.

Only eight miles from the airport, the resort overlooks Intendance Bay in a way that stops you from realising you're in a resort.

Aristotle distinguishes two kinds of magistrates, the agoranomi, who had the intendance of the markets, and the astynomi, who inspected the buildings.

The city at this time lived mostly off of its administrative functions: royal justice, évêché, monasteries and the intendance of the Généralité du Poitou.

La Flore Mauricienne (212 2200), in animated Intendance Street, is perfect for people-watching from an outdoor terrace while gorging on the local spicy fish curry.

In 1786, the headquarters of the intendance was displaced to Nantes to remove it from the immediate influence of the parliament and the Estates General or their committees.

Hôtel de la Vieille Intendance Home of sociologist Auguste Comte and writer Paul Valéry.

Granville once formed part of the diocese of Coutances, the Parliament of Rouen and the intendance of Caen.

In the 17th century, oversight of the généralités was subsumed by the "intendants of finance, justice and police", and the expression généralité and intendance became roughly synonymous.

The Banyan Tree Spa in the Seychelles lives on Intendance Bay on the "main" Seychelles island of Mahé.

Following pressure on Maurepas, Beauharnais was also dismissed from the intendance of Rochefort and was made intendant of the navy for a second time on 1 April 1739.

The encomiendas could only be inherited up to two generations, and the encomenderos had no political or judiciary power in their lands, depending on the pertinent Royal Audience and Captaincy General or Intendance.

Upon their arrival in St. Pierre, around 5 that afternoon, Marie settled into their suite at the Hotel Intendance, while Mouttet met the members of the scientific commission in the hotel dining room.

Besides, Bourbons established according to the French model, a "provincial Intendance" on their territories, taking the kingdom of Galicia an Intendance, and being under the command of a General Captain.

The south is less populated and boasts spectacular, often deserted, palm-fringed, talcum powder-soft beaches, such as Intendance, a half-mile stretch of powdery white sand considered by many to be the best stretch of sand in the Indian Ocean.

Of course, sometimes, just when you think you've found your perfect beach, it turns out to be fatally flawed: Intendance Bay on the Seychelles island of Mahé was my idea of perfection - until I found myself in the clutches of a powerful current trying to drag me out to sea.