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Legifrance, Direction de l'information legale et administrative

Maintains the text in force

The official consolidated text of French codes and statutes. Each code has a stable address built from a LEGITEXT identifier, and the page offers the whole code as a PDF under 'Telecharger le code', which is the only form that carries the text of the articles.

Maintains the current text of the law as amended, so you can read a provision as it stands today rather than reconstructing it from amendments.

www.legifrance.gouv.fr

Cannot be cited for

The domain is behind a bot challenge and answers 403 to every request this project makes, including to the PDF endpoint its own page links to - so every reading here was downloaded by a person in a browser and stored as `manual-read`, and cannot be refreshed by running a command. A browser is not reliable either: one page saved by hand came back as the challenge itself, 5,883 bytes titled 'Just a moment...'. The code page at /codes/texte_lc/ carries only the plan, article numbers in a list with no text, so a reader following a citation to it will not find the quoted words there and has to take the PDF. The PDF states its own two dates on the last line, the last modification and the day it was generated, and the cut-off recorded against a quotation is the first of those. What is not here at all is practice: French immigration decisions rest heavily on circulaires and on prefectural discretion, and neither is published in the code.

Re-check every

90 days

Publication rhythm

Consolidated continuously; each generated PDF prints the date of the last modification it carries.

Re-check triggers

an amendment to the CESEDA on residence permits · an amendment to the nationality articles of the Code civil

Pages we hold

We keep the text of each page as we read it, and every quotation on this site is checked against that stored text. A page held more than once moved while we were watching.