| Abstract
| - Secretaries-General, Mayors, and Administrative Supervision on Political Territory . The study, in Parisian suburbs, of the function of secrétaire de mairie (in charge of all administrative services), an intermediary between the high-ranking official of the sub-directorate of the prefecture’s communes, the local elected representative and the citizen, shows the continuing depoliticisation of the administrative functioning of communes during the Fourth Republic. Despite various political turbulences of the period, the ways of recruiting secrétaires de mairies became stabilised, with more and more emphasis on professionalisation, guaranteed by the prefecture’s supervision. The continuation of this professionalisation trend contributed to the rising political and technical legitimacy shared by mayors and secretaries-general.
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