Word: prefect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis Lepine, "King of the Paris streets," is dead. For eighteen years this suave, dapper little man ruled the greatest of continental cities as Prefect of Police, tamed the apaches, and with velvet-gloved truncheon put down each uprising of a notoriously restless populace. It was the quiet, tense efficiency of his regime which inspired the novels of Gaborlau, the mystery of Stevenson's "Suicide Club," and the dashing career of Arsene Lupin...
...ingenious thwarting of a series of labor disturbances just before the war serves to illustrate what sang froid and organizing ability Lepine brought to the office of prefect. On the famous "Day of Fear," a hundred thousand disgruntled workers were milling through the city; a host of apaches and incendiary radicals stood ready to exploit them. If riot was to be avoided without bloodshed, Lepine had to prevent the workers from massing at a given point. This he did with a handful of gendarmes and his "mental suggestion maneuvers." From early morning on, scattered marchers bound for a meeting place...
Under his orders the Prefect of Seine-et-Oise called out troops. Some 200 gendarmes, backed by blue-clad Injanterie de-Marine, piled into fire boats and sailed up stream. At dawn they met the bargemen, brandishing boathooks. With a swish high pressure hoses were turned on, washed the boatmen off their decks and into the river while wives and children screamed imprecations through the portholes. The Seine was cleared. Twoscore of the ringleaders, most of them Belgian subjects, were arrested, charged with the extremely serious offense of Rebellion...
...year to 18 months because of the small size of the conscript classes of 1934-5-6, born in Wartime. The Military Governor of Paris, one-armed General Henri Gouraud, announced mass training for the Paris population against gas attack this summer, under the direction of that effervescent Corsican, Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe...
Died. Bonaventura Cardinal Cerretti. 60, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal, one-time Apostolic Delegate to Australasia and Papal Nuncio to France, close friend and biographer of Pope Pius XI. often mentioned as his successor; of pneumonia; in Vatican City...