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Prefects are created in 1800 as a dated departmental administration

On 17 February 1800 prefects were created as Napoleon's departmental administration. Napoleon's documented role is: He created prefects to run départements. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Industrial-Policy Activism.

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On 17 February 1800 prefects were created as Napoleon's departmental administration. Police uses sit on the Fouché row. Napoleon's documented role is: He created prefects to run départements. They also policed; the administrative grid is this offset, police costs sit on the Fouché row.

Context

Départements already existed. Sharing the office with named first prefects is required. The setting of Prefects are created in 1800 as a dated departmental administration is the public file around 1800-02-17. Driver industrial-policy-activism is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Split on purpose. Mixed effects of Prefects are created in 1800 as a dated departmental administration are separate paths.

Why it matters

Improving path from Prefects are created in 1800 as a dated departmental administration on 1800-02-17. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Napoleon

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.44 · verified

    He created prefects to run départements. They also policed; the administrative grid is this offset, police costs sit on the Fouché row.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactPrefects are created in 1800 as a dated departmental administration
    2. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

    impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 17 February 1800 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Fondation Napoléon — metric enforcement neighbourhoodFondation Napoléon · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Napoleon, metric system neighbourhoodEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official locator: Britannica — Napoleon, prefects at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Fondation Napoléon — prefects 1800 at https://www.napoleon.org/en/ (opens in a new tab) (Fondation Napoléon). Official carrier: Britannica — Napoleon, prefects (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Fondation Napoléon — prefects 1800 (https://www.napoleon.org/en/ (opens in a new tab); Fondation Napoléon).

Established: a sourced public record of Prefects are created in 1800 as a dated departmental administration under 1800-02-17 for Napoleon. Established: a sourced public record of Prefects are created in 1800 as a dated departmental administration under 1800-02-17.

Shared responsibility is part of Prefects are created in 1800 as a dated departmental administration. Naming Napoleon does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1800-02-17 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorNapoleon
  2. contributed toFactPrefects are created in 1800 as a dated departmental administration
  3. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

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Factrail. (2026). Prefects are created in 1800 as a dated departmental administration. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/nap-prefects-1800

https://factrail.ai/facts/nap-prefects-1800

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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