# Prefects are created in 1800 as a dated departmental administration

Date: 1800

## The fact

On 17 February 1800 prefects were created as [Napoleon](/people/napoleon)'s departmental administration. Police uses sit on the Fouché row. The grid is this Fact. 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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [industrial-policy-activism](/drivers/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. Do not rebate press-police with prefects. Split on purpose. Mixed effects of Prefects are created in 1800 as a dated departmental administration are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

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

Official or archival record: Britannica — Napoleon, prefects (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

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

The attached driver is industrial-policy-activism. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

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.

## People

- Napoleon: https://factrail.ai/people/napoleon

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism

## Sources

- https://www.napoleon.org/en/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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