User:Mathglot/sandbox/French law references

This is a supplementary page containing a collection of French law references aimed at editors writing articles related to French law. It may be used in combination with the article skeleton at User:Mathglot/sandbox/French law stub.

Quickstart
If you already know the topic generally, here are some quick copy-paste models you can use: }}     e.g.,  https://books.google.com/books?id=rQAKtn-XjzIC&pg=PA177 A-Z list of Dalloz fiches: https://www.dalloz.fr/documentation/Document?id=OASIS-LISTE-ALPHA-GENERALES&scrll=OASIS-LISTE-ALPHA-GENERALES%2FA For details, check the individual sections below.

Major references
Here are some citations to works which may be suitable for a "Works cited" section in an article about French law. It is formatted for ease of use with short footnotes (template sfn) but may be used as inline citations by embedding the citation portion within  tags:









































































https://www.linguee.fr/francais-anglais/traduction/proc%C3%A8s-verbal.html loc=saisi des faits















Many more including Dalloz article references at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_criminal_law#Works_cited

Dictionaries and glossaries
Prof. Jean-Paul's dictionary of criminal law is the most exhaustively complete reference of terms in French criminal law. Example:

The Council of Europe has a bilingual Legal dictionary, partly viewable through Google books, for a limited number of A–J words:

CNRTL.fr is a comprehensive French online dictionary, which also includes legal terms (marked Dr. -- Droit) and has etymologies as well. Terms like infraction, contravention, delit, crime, partie civile (under partie), procureur, punir, reinsertion could all be found there. It's a dictionary, so generally does not have multiple-word expressions.



INSEE has some definitions, e.g., for 'P': https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/definitions#lettre-P

The website of the Ministere de la justice has two glossaries (lexiques):



An example, using garde à vue:

{{blockquote|text=Police custody is the situation in which a person, suspected of having committed or attempted to commit an offense punishable by imprisonment, is held by the police or gendarmerie as part of a judicial investigation. It is a measure that deprives a person of liberty for a strictly limited period of time. {{sfn|MDLJ-Lexique|2008|loc=G} }}

A list of additional legal glossaries can be found at Glossary of French criminal law.

Monographs
Monographs (longer than dictionary entries) on certain important topics of French criminal law can be found at MDLJ and Dalloz (where they are called "fiches"). Also, the entries at Prof. Doucet's dictionary are sometimes longer than an article stub would be, so they are entire articles on their own, although heavily technical with lots of legal and historical references.

Example monograph on garde à vue at MDLJ's glossary:

Other monographs from MDLJ:











Citing Légifrance
Légifrance is a very comprehensive database of all French laws and judicial text, from the 1500s to the present. Wikipedia has three templates to assist in citing a text or law at Legifrance:


 * Legifrance – to create an external link inline to a law or text
 * sfn Legifrance – to create a short footnote to a law or text
 * Legifrance – to create a full, long-form citation to Légifrance, suitable either as an inline, named reference, or as a full citation in the "Works cited" section of an article that uses short footnotes.

Without using any of these templates, you'd have to cite a particular law the long way, like this: which is a lot to know and type out. Much simpler is this:

Even simpler, is either of these two. The first one is in inline named reference style; the second is using short footnotes:

...and restored the republic after war.

...and restored the republic after war.

In some cases, you need to find the url separately (details at the template doc), resulting in something like this:

...by the important 1971 decision of the Constitutional Council #71-44 DC.

Specific topics
Here are some references for specific topics related to French law.

Marechausee
Marechausee references: