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Into the core of the French system of state finance and state action, the French Budget Act (LOLF) has introduced the evaluation of the results of state action by means of indicators. The author samples these indicators, discusses their relevance, and reveals their serious shortcomings. Often, they fail to pinpoint the principal action of the state in a precise area, and as a result, only measure accessory elements of this action. Still more serious, some indicators are not relevant for the evaluation of a given action and can even lead to results that hardly reflect that action. Others are unusable, and still others are only able to measure internal activities of the administration, without taking into account the impact of its activities on users or the public in general. If, as the LOLF stipulates, indicators are not only to measure the results of the state but also be of use to Parliament for future budgetary choices and serve to judge the action of administrative managers, they must be completely revised.