ABSTRACT
Turning to yet another field, one encounters the aura of official authority still surrounding such theatres as the Comedie Franc;aise and the Opera. Finally, in view of the not very laudatory judgments expressed earlier regarding the Empire's economic institutions, it is only fair to add that one of them, the local arbitration board (conseil de prud'hommes), today according workers more of a voice than they were allowed under the Empire, has remained a flexible and valuable feature of modern French industrial relations. Whether or not all the innovations mentioned here, as well as countless others which might have been cited, strike a modern observer as changes for the better, their combined importance is scarcely open to question.
