intendant's Usage Examples:

He hoped in the first instance for material support from the theatre in Mannheim, and its intendant, W.

He was intendant of the theatre at Mannheim, which he brought to a high state of excellence.

Turgot was then intendant of Limousin.

JULES MAZARIN (1602-1661), French cardinal and statesman, elder son of a Sicilian, Pietro Mazarini, the intendant of the household of Philip Colonna, and of his wife Ortensia Buffalini, a connexion of the Colonnas, was born at Piscina in the Abruzzi on the 14th of July 1602.

After the victory of Fontaine-Frangaise (1595), Henry took Jeannin into his council and in 1602 named him intendant of finances.

Antoine Megret d'Etigny, intendant from 1751 to 1767, did much to improve the city and its commerce.

The streets are in general steep and narrow, but there is a handsome promenade in the upper town, laid out in the 18th century by the intendant Antoine Megret d'Etigny.

He entered the profession of the law, and became in succession advocate to the general council of Artois, procureur to the parlement of Douai, master of requests, then intendant of Metz (1768) and of Lille (1774).

New France now became a royal province, with governor, intendant, 'c., on the model of the provinces of France.

With Michel de Chamillart, whom he had known as intendant of Rouen (1689-1690), he had no better success.