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Subprefectures ( in France that do not contain the Prefecture for its Department . Subprefecture is also the name given to the building which houses the administarive headquarters for the arrondissement.

The civil servant in charge of a subprefecture is the subprefect, assisted by a general secretary. Between May 1982 and February 1988, subprefects were known instead by the title "''commissaire adjoint de la République''".

Where the administration of an arrondissement is carried out from a prefecture, the general secretary to the prefect carries out duties equivalent to those of the subprefect.

Paris is unique in that it has no subprefecture, being made up of only a single prefecture. The Municipal Arrondissements Of Paris (as well as of Lyon and Marseille ) are divisions of the city (or Commune ) rather than the prefecture, and so are not arrondissements in the same sense.


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