subprefecture
Noun
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subprefecture (plural subprefectures)
An administrative division of a country below prefecture.
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Raymond Collier, La Haute-Provence monumentale et artistique, p. 434 * The old gendarmerie on Place Manuel was originally constructed to house the subprefecture in 1825 in a neoclassical style, and its façade occupies one entire side of the square.
This was stopped, however, on 10 December before it could reach Barcelonnette, as the priest of the subprefecture had intervened.
It is also the second largest subprefecture in France (after Reims ).
The capital of an arrondissement is called a subprefecture (sous-préfecture) or chef-lieu d'arrondissement.
The subprefecture has been situated since 1978 in a maison mexicaine, the Villa l'Ubayette, constructed between 1901 and 1903.