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Prefecture of the Seine — The administration of the Seine département
The prefecture of the Seine département, from which Paris was administered — and from which Haussmann cut through, sanitized and rebuilt it. (Editorial synthesis)
Recorded holder of the Prefecture of the Seine: Georges-Eugène Haussmann (from 1853 to 1870, his dismissal).
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