Maurice Papon/prefect of Police of Paris 1958-1967

Famous quotes containing the words prefect, police and/or paris:

    The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State’s ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.
    Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)

    There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that’s something no police in the world can spot.
    Max Frisch (1911–1991)

    The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)