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Subprefectures are the administrative towns of arrondissements in France that do not contain the prefecture for its department. Subprefecture is also the name given to the building which houses the administrative headquarters for the arrondissement.

The civil servant in charge of a subprefecture is the subprefect, assisted by a general secretary
General secretary

The term General Secretary denotes a leader of various unions, parties, churches or associations. The most notable usages are the following:...
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Verdun Sous Prefecture 4juni2006 045
Subprefectures are the administrative towns of arrondissements in France that do not contain the prefecture for its department. Subprefecture is also the name given to the building which houses the administrative headquarters for the arrondissement.

The civil servant in charge of a subprefecture is the subprefect, assisted by a general secretary
General secretary

The term General Secretary denotes a leader of various unions, parties, churches or associations. The most notable usages are the following:...
. 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
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 is unique in that it has no subprefecture made up of only a single prefecture. The municipal arrondissements of Paris
Arrondissements of Paris

The City of Paris is divided into twenty Municipal arrondissements of France, more simply referred to as arrondissements . These are not to be confused with departmental arrondissements of France, which subdivide the one hundred French departments of France....
 (as well as of Lyon
Lyon

||-||}Lyon, also known as Lyons in English, is a city in east-central France. Its name is pronounced in French language and Franco-Proven?al language, and or in English language....
 and Marseille
Marseille

"Marseille" is the second-largest city of France and forms the third-largest aire urbaine, after those of Paris and Lyon, with a population recorded to be 1,516,340 at the 1999 census and estimated to be 1,605,000 in 2007....
) are divisions of the city (or commune) rather than the prefecture, and so are not arrondissements in the same sense.

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