Would the emerging professionalism of the era, as exemplified by military physicians, replace the more genteel expertise personified by the intendance?.    From Wordnik.com.  [William B. McAllister - Fighting Reformers: The Debate over the Reorganization of The French Military Medical Service 1870-1889.] Reference

But to return from this digression: Mr. B — advised me to send a requete or petition to the chancellor of France, that I might obtain an order to have my books examined on the spot, by the president of Boulogne, or the procureur du roy, or the sub-delegate of the intendance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels through France and Italy] Reference

"Ah! Monsieur Colbert; you have then nine hundred thousand livres at the intendance?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Years Later] Reference

"Tiens! not far from the front, don't know where exactly, where there's an ambulance clearing-station and a sous-intendance -- I met the reptile there.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Under Fire: the story of a squad] Reference

Five Marianist fathers conducted courses at the university, the school for nobles, the school for man = CFvres, the school of cadets, and that of the military intendance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

On his refusal to install the new magistrates appointed by Maupeou after the suppression of the Parliaments, he was transferred to the intendance of Provence and then to La Rochelle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

Many and deep were the curses poured out upon the intendance -- or commissariat -- whose utter incompetence, throughout the war, was one of the great reasons of the continuous bad fortune of the French.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War] Reference

There His Majesty, Emperor and King, was never anything but "M. de Bonaparte"; there "the King" meant Louis XVIII., then at Mittau; there the Department was still the Province, and the prefecture the intendance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jealousies of a Country Town] Reference

The service of military intendance is exercised by twelve bodies, having the function of direction and vigilance, and by twenty-four commissary sections, stationed with each commander of an army corps or of a division.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

Marshal's table during the interview with Regnier, the most recent state furnished by the French intendance, that of the 21st of September which specified the 18th of October as the precise date of the final exhaustion of the army's supplies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference

(now at home, in consequence of the diminution of our force,) was requested to collect a corps of the mi - litia in the vicinity of Fredericksburg, for the purpose of covering the most important and well conducted manufactory of arms in the state, established at Fal - mouth, a small village on the north of the Rappahan - noc, one mile above Fredericksburg, and under the direction of Mr. John Strode, — a gentleman singu - larly adapted, by his genius and habits, for its super - intendance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the war in the Southern department of the United States] Reference