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  1. An official appointed by the French crown
  2. under Louis XIV to administer a territorial
  3. departement. Their powers were extensive but
  4. counteracted to some extent by other local
  5. officials. The term was also used for certain
  6. administrators in Spain, Portugal, and Latin
  7. America.
  8.