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intendant

Official appointed by the French crown under Louis XIV to administer a territorial département. Their powers were extensive but counteracted to some extent by other local officials. The term was also used for certain administrators in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.

Intendant

Manager or director of an opera house or other theatre in Germany, especially one attached to a court in former times.
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The wife accepted the baby with joy, and though the intendant saw quite well that it must have come from the royal palace, he did not think it was his business to inquire further into the mystery.
The Arabian Nights by Lang, Andrew View in context
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War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Mouston, whose personal corpulency, quite enough at any time to hide one man from another, was effectually doubled by a scarlet coat which the intendant was holding up for his master's inspection, by the sleeves, that he might the better see it all over.
The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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