The French Civil Service Office

A LTHOUGH the reforms in the public service carried out in France since 1945 have been fairly broad, it is exaggerated to consider them, as has sometimes been done, as an attempt to reconstitute a disintegrating system which was partially responsible for the military defeat of 1940. In reality, although the French service before 1939 was in need of revitalization, the principles that guided it were on the whole sound. France had never known a