ESTABLISHING THE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW IN FRANCE, OR THE «BLANCO» CASE

. The article presents, to the Russian reader, the so-called «Blanco» case, decided by the French Confl ict Court in 1873 and remaining, to the day, one of the most renowed cases in French public law. It gives a short survey of the French administrative law in two key areas the founding «Blanco» ruling dealt with: the liability for the torts of public offi cers and the competence of administrative courts to decide on them. Both aspects were slowly, gradu-ally developped, mostly through case law. The opinion of the reporting juge Marie-René Emond DAVID, and the ruling itself, were translated from French into Russian by the author.