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of bureaucrats in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Bureaucrats.    The
term 'bureaucrat' was first used in print during the French
Revolution by the journalist Fouilloux in the Père Duchesne in
1791, writing that the object most deserving of his disgust was
the bureaucrat, harbinger of a ‘new mode of servitude’. The word
‘bureaucrat’ was then officially codified by La néologiste
française in 1796 as an expression of contempt.[1] The
'bureaucrat' has kept its pejorative connotations since,[dubious
][citation needed] even though sociologists and political
scientists use the term synonymously with the term
'administrator.'  German sociologist Max Weber defined a
bureaucratic official as the following:[2]    • His
administrative work is a full-time occupation.  As an academic,
Woodrow Wilson professed:[3]  Bureaucrats of the EU are
frequently termed "eurocrats" simply because its a portmanteau
of Europe