It demands, in fact, the collaboration of lawyer and administrator such as is achieved in the Conseil d'état, and if a Frenchman is forced to admit that his ordinary courts are infected far more than the English with the poison of politics, he can console himself with the thought that his administrative law is probably in a healthier state than ours, and that he gets a better protection from the cheap, speedy and powerful intervention of the Conseil d'état than the English citizen does from the expensive and often ineffective processes of the Supreme Court.