Conseil D'Etat (France)
In France, the Council of State (French: Conseil d'État; ) is a body of the French national government that acts both as legal adviser of the executive branch and as the supreme court for administrative justice. Established in 1799 by Napoléon Bonaparte as a successor to the King's Council (Conseil du Roi), it is located in the Palais Royal in Paris and is primarily made up of top-level legal officers. The Vice President of the Council of State is the highest-ranking civil servant in France.
The Conseil d'Etat is as well a Grand Corps of the French State (grand corps de l'Etat) mainly recruiting among the top ranking students graduating from the Ecole nationale d'administration.
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