a full "pouvoir discrtionnaire" (or "discretionary power"), which means that it has an absolute discretion to make such or such decision. For example, it is a free choice, for the President of the Republic, to decide to award decorations, such as the Legion of Honour, to any citizen. So the judge will not review at all the President's possible errors of assessment of the citizens' merits. But, in most cases, the administration is rather in an intermediate situation between these two extremes, where it has a limited discretion. In this situation, and according to different criteria determined by the Council of State case-law, the court will either exercise a full review of "qualification juridique des faits" (or "legal definition of facts"), or confine itself to a review of "erreur manifeste d'apprciation" (or "manifest error of assessment of facts"). In the former case, the court will set aside the impugned decision on the mere ground that its assessment of facts is different from that of the administration, whereas, in the latter, it will only check if this decision is not flawed by a gross mistake of assessment and will not quash it as far it was reasonable, even if the judge thinks that it was not necessarily right. For example, if a building permit has been refused because the planned construction was deemed by the administration to be harmful to visual perspectives around a nearby historical monument, this assessment will be subject to full review. But, in the case of a