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Foreign institution

Blanchefleur harbour commissioner at Dover

Also called the Blanchefleur commissioner

The harbour commissioner and commercial clerk Blanchefleur keeps at Dover, since the banner cities keep no embassies there. It handles claims, detained cargo, dead or missing Lyonnais sailors, and explains Dover's lawful but unfamiliar actions to White owners.

Named with it

  • Commissioner Lucien Vaudrec · commissioner, fourteen years

Ties

At the table

Flies no banner; received by the Dover corporation on formal matters. Vaudrec is a minor Dover celebrity, treated as foreign or local as suits the town. The right door when the client on the Kentish shore is itself foreign.