Sous-préfecture
Sous-préfecture is the French term for "
subprefecture".
In
France, a
sous-préfecture is the administrative town of an
arrondissement not containing the
préfecture for its
département. The term
sous-préfecture equally describes a building housing the administarive headquarters for the
arrondissement.
The civil servant in charge of a
sous-préfecture is the
sous-préfet, assisted by a
secrétaire général. Between May 1982 and February 1988,
sous-préfets were known instead by the title
"commissaire adjoint de la République".
Where the administration of an
arrondissement is carried out from a
préfecture, the
secrétaire général to the
préfet carries out duties equivalent to those of the
sous-préfet.
It should be noted that
Paris has no
sous-préfecture, being made up of only a single
préfecture. The
municipal arrondissements of Paris (as well as of
Lyon and
Marseille) are divisions of the city (or
commune) rather than the
préfecture, and so are not
arrondissements in the same sense.
See also
*
List of arrondissements of France
