Word: juillard
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...Fiquet, brisk pater familias and councilor of the Folie-Méricourt precinct of the Department of the Seine, suddenly became alarmed lest Parisian schoolchildren had not enough time to consume the formidable French mid-day meal. So he appealed to the Prefect of the Seine, M. Juillard, grizzled repository of safety and welfare...
Were MM. Fiquet and Juillard perplexed? Pas de tout. Fiquet had an inspiration-a zoning system. Let the children of the poor eat with their families from 12 to 2. Let the children of the middle-classes eat from 11:30 to 1:30. Sensible, intricate, flexible, the system to be evolved will pay obeisance to the chief gods of the French bureaucracy: omnipresent paternalism, involved elaboration of red tape, with a strong substratum of invaluable commonsense...