The French word huissier (" doorman ", from huis , an archaic term for a door) designates ceremonial offices in France and Switzerland.
2-453: Weibel may refer to the office of "usher" in Switzerland, see Huissier ; it is also a personal name. Huissier In French government ministries and Parliament, a huissier is an employee who provides general service to the minister or assembly (transmitting messages, handling ballot boxes , etc.). Traditionally, they wear a chain around the neck, because their original function
4-568: Was to lock and unlock doors. Before the Revolution, the title could be a court office in the household of royalty, as a type of valet de chambre . In Switzerland , huissier is the French equivalent of German Weibel (also Amtsweibel ), the term for a ceremonial office in Swiss cantonal and federal governments, parliaments, and courts of law. At the federal level, the office is known as Bundesweibel , at
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