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Shortly before 6 p.m., when the long-awaited decision of the Constitutional Council falls on Friday April 14, the institution on rue Montpensier looks like a bunker. Mobile gendarmes took up position in the corridors and on the steps of the central staircase. Outside the building, the area is cordoned off by law enforcement. It was in this electric climate that, after a seven-hour deliberation, the nine wise men decided: the essentials of the pension reform are validated, starting with the postponement of the legal age to 64 years old. Only six provisions of the bill are rejected, like the senior index.