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Generates a standard citation for [[Légifrance]], the official website of the French government for the publication of laws and legislation; either with a link to a specific legal text, or just a full citation to the site, suitable for linkage from [[WP:Citing sources#Short citations|short citations]]. Automatically linked to by {{tl|sfn Legifrance}}.

== Usage ==

{{tlc|Cite Legifrance}} – a full citation in the [[MOS:REFERENCES|References]] section, addressable by [[Wikipedia:Citing sources#Short citations|short citations]] (see {{tl|Sfn Legifrance}}{{thinspace}})

<code><nowiki><ref name="CP 121-3">{{Cite Legifrance|base=CP|number=121-3}}</ref></nowiki></code> – a full, [[Wikipedia:Citing sources#Inline citations|inline citation]] to a specific law

<code><nowiki><ref name="Legifrance">{{Cite Legifrance}}</ref>{{rp|at={{Legifrance|base=CP|number=121-3}}}}</nowiki></code> – a general, reusable, [[WP:NAMEDREF|named ref]] inline, with {{tl|rp}} to specify which law

== Parameters ==

All parameters are optional. Recommendation:  
When used as an [[Wikipedia:Citing sources#Inline citations|inline citation]] to link a particular law, use only {{para|base}} and {{para|number}} (and sometimes {{para|text}} and {{para|url}} as needed) and omit the rest. When used as a full citation to the Legifrance site in the Reference list of an article as a base for [[WP:Citing sources#Short citations|short citations]] to connect to, use no parameters.

* {{para|base}} – a token indicating which part of the code, e.g. {{pval|CP}} for the penal code, {{pval|JORF}} for the ''[[Journal officiel]]'', {{pval|CC}} for the Civil Code, and so on. Optional. See {{slink||TemplateData}} for list of possible values.
* {{para|number}} – article number in the given code base; e.g, {{pval|1}}, {{pval|121-3}}. Optional, but required if {{para|base}} is present.
* {{para|text}} – display text underlying the wikilink to the article at Légifrance. Optional. If param {{para|base}} or {{para|number}} is absent, then this param is ignored. If both are present and {{para|text}} is omitted, then it defaults to the expanded value of 'base', plus the value of 'number'. 
* {{para|url}} – optional link to a particular Légifrance article. Normally this param should be omitted as the template calculates it based on 'base' and 'number'. If used, it should be only when both {{para|base}} and {{para|number}} are present, as the link url is calculated by the template as a function of base and number. However if required, the param may be used to override the default value, such as to create a link to a page grouping several related articles.

Remaining parameters wrap {{tl|cite web}} parameters of the same name; see [[Template:Cite web#Template:Cite_web#Description|its doc page]] for details. These should normally be omitted:
* {{para|author}}
* {{para|date}}
* {{para|title}}
* {{para|trans-title}}
* {{para|publisher}}
* {{para|ref}}
* {{para|at}}.

=== Param notes ===
The following explains how to choose the value of the {{para|number}} parameter:
{{#section:Template:Legifrance/doc|param-number}}

The following explains how to choose the value of the {{para|base}} parameter:
{{trim|{{#section-h:Template:Legifrance/doc|Legifrance databases and 'base' values}}}}
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== Usage notes ==
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=== Alternatives to this template ===

To create a full citation to a Legifrance article, the recommended way is to use this {{tl|Cite Legifrance}} template. To create a full citation without using that template, you may do so by coding it yourself, and embedding the {{tl|Legifrance}} template in the {{para|at}} param to create the external link to the specific penal code. Here's an example showing this as a full [[Wikipedia:Citing sources#Inline citations|inline citation]]:

: <small><code><nowiki><ref name="CP 121-3">{{cite web |author=République française |date=19 October 2022 |title=Légifrance Le service public de la diffusion du droit |website=Légifrance |publisher=Secrétariat général du gouvernement |url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr </nowiki>'''|at={{((}}legifrance|base=CP|number=121-3{{))}}'''<nowiki> |access-date=</nowiki>{{TODAY}}<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code></small>

Note that in this [[Wikipedia:Citing sources#Inline citations|inline citation]] example, the title will link to the home page of Légifrance, and the 'at' value will link directly to the law.

== Examples ==

<code><nowiki><ref>{{cite legifrance|base=CPP|number=121-3}}</ref></nowiki></code> – an [[Wikipedia:Citing sources#Inline citations|inline citation]] to a law

<code><nowiki>{{cite legifrance}}</nowiki></code> – full citation to Légifrance, suitable for inclusion in the "References" or "Works cited" section, where short footnote templates ({{thinspace}}{{tl|sfn Legifrance}}, {{tl|sfn}}{{thinspace}}) can link to it.

== See also ==
* {{tl|Legifrance}}
* {{tl|Sfn Legifrance}}
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* {{tls|Cite book/French}}
* {{tls|Cite journal/French}}
* {{tls|Cite web/French}}
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* {{tl|Cite French arrêté}}
* {{tl|Cite French decree}}
* {{tl|Cite French law}}

== General references ==

The official French legalese definition of arrêté is in section 1.3 of
{{citation |title=Guide de légistique |edition=3 |date=2017 |publisher=La documentation Française |isbn=978-2-11-145578-8 |url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/contenu/menu/autour-de-la-loi/guide-de-legistique}} <!-- PDF direct: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/contenu/Media/Files/autour-de-la-loi/guide-de-legistique/guide-de-legistique-edition-2017-format-pdf.pdf --> See also section 6 (Principales règles typographiques...), p. 695–701 in the pdf for everything you wanted to know about French legal citation numbering and formatting.

The basic layout of most French statutes is described in English at {{cite web |title=Codes & Legislation |website=France: legal resources |date=2022-07-05 |publisher=Bodleian Libraries – University of Oxford |url=https://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/law-french/codes}}

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