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ARRONDISSEMENT (from arrondir, to make round)

ARRONDISSEMENT (from arrondir, to make See also:
ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)
round) , an administrative subdivision of a See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department in See also:

France. Dating nominally from ',Soo, the arrondissement was really a re-creation of the " See also:

DISTRICT

district " of 1790. It comprises within itself the See also:

canton and the See also:

commune. It differs from the department and from the commune in being merely an administrative See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division and not a See also:

COMPLETE

complete legal See also:

PERSONALITY (from Lat. persona, originally an actor's mask, from personare,1 to sound through)

personality with See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power to acquire and possess. The purposes for which it exists are, again, unlike those of the department and the commune, comparatively limited. It is the electoral district for the chamber of deputies, each arrondissement returning one member; if the See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population is in excess of 100,000 it is divided into two or more constituencies. It is also a judicial district having a See also:

court of first instance. It is under the See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control of a sub-See also:

PREFECT (prefet)

prefect. There are 362 arrondissements in the 87 departments. Each arrondissement has a See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council, with as many members as there are cantons, whose See also:

FUNCTION

function is to subdivide among the communes their See also:

QUOTA

quota of the See also:

DIRECT

direct taxes charged to the arrondissement by the See also:

general council of the department. (See FRANCE.) Somewhat different from the arrondissements of the department are the arrondissements (20 in number) into which See also:

Paris is divided. They See also:

bear a certain resemblance to the sub-municipalities created in See also:

LONDON

London by the London See also:

Government See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act 1899, and each forms a See also:

LOCAL

local administrative unit (see PARIS).

France is also subdivided, for purposes of See also:

defence, into five maritime divisions, termed arrondissements. Institutedoriginally under the Consulate, they were suppressed in 1815, but re-established again in 1826. They are under the direction of maritime prefects, who, by a See also:

DECREE (from the past participle, decretus, of Lat. decernere)

decree of 1875, must be See also:

VICE

vice-admirals in the See also:

NAVY

navy.

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