Word: conseils
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...Conseil d'État will unhesitatingly interpret a law newly passed by the National Assembly in the light of decrees or regulations issued by Francis I or Louis XIII, and use the final and authoritative construction thus put upon it to pour back the new wine into the old bottles of an archaic jurisprudence. Before the last war the Cour des Comptes still used the same antiquated accounting system, the same quill pens, and the same bewildering piles of ledgers that were used in the Chambre des Comptes of the last Capetians [circa 1300]." The typewriter and the calculating...
...neighbors at The Hague pricked up their ears in interest when Theodorus told them-in strictest confidence-of the great position he held. He was, it seems, no mere tailor's son at all, but "President Robert," the supreme head of a worldwide underground organization called the Conseil Consulaire Secret Diplomatique, a group so powerful that it could stop or start world wars at will...
...from sleep by his Gentlemen. Nobody thought there was anything extraordinary about this sham ritual, for it was an exact copy of the method by which France was ruled. Just as Louis XV had a State Bedroom in which to lie down officially, so had he "Parlements" and a "Conseil d'Etat"-Bourbon equivalents of the modern dictator's "Soviets"-to lay down officially the laws which he created...
...Conseil National de Patronat Francais is the French sponsoring group...
...Belgium, the Conseil d'Etat, which is short on legal powers but long on moral suasion, unexpectedly took the position that the EDC treaty violated Belgium's constitution...