Representing on mission

During the French revolution, a representing on mission was an extraordinary envoy of the legislative Parliament. They were generally deputies designated by the Convention to take care of the maintenance of law and order and the application of the laws in the departments and the armed . If such inspectors existed already under the Ancien Mode, they are systematized under the period of Terror and are equipped with all the capacities. Only a minority of them misused to be able to them and exerted a true dictatorship at the local level.

representatives on mission under the French revolution: Joseph Fouché, Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron, Jean-Lambert Tallien, Jean-Baptiste Carrier, Etienne Christophe Maignet, Jean-Marie Collot d' Herbois and Georges Couthon in Lyon.

Others

At other times, the central capacity used envoys with the special capacities to make respect its authority: political police chiefs in Nazi Germany and the USSR.

In a very different context, there were Missi dominici at the time of Charlemagne.

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