Word: prefect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These young men have been accustomed to consider themselves superior to their female counterparts. But Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe has now sternly ruled that each gigolo must obtain a license and carry an identity card exactly similar to those issued to common prostitutes...
Senator Mosconi is not, like his predecessor, a self made man or a titan of private finance. But he has served the new Feudal Duce with ready obedience as Prefect of Triest; and he was recently Royal Commissioner to the Venetian province ceded to Italy by Austria-Hungary, after the War-a province wherein the Mosconi were granted lands and certain Hungarian titles in the 16th Century...
Last fortnight M. le Prefect of Paris Police Jean Chiappe released an interesting survey of the life of the gigolo based upon police investigation...
...Jean Chiappe, Prefect of Police of Paris (see INTERNATIONAL), issued an order, with approval of the Municipal Council of Paris, which ran thus...
Fortunately-at least for such poor-proud folk-the French concept of a policeman's duty is paternal. It was so interpreted, last week, by M. Jean Chiappe, the Prefect of Police of Paris. With firm wisdom M. le Préfet ordered his gendarnes to take into custody every vagrant. Soon, in warm Paris jails, the needy were served hot soups and stews which they could accept without loss of honor. When the weather moderated they were released...