France: Legal and Governmental Documents
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- The Ordinance of Louis the Pious dividing the empire
- (817; English translation)
- (870; English translation)
- (1778; bilingual English / French facsimile and English transcription)
- Provincial historical documents regarding English and French interests.
- Digitised by the National Library of Canada.
- (19th and 20th centuries; transcriptions).
- Constitutional documents, treaties, and other primary sources regarding English and French interests in Canada.
- (1760 to the present; transcriptions).
- (1789; transcription of French original)
- (1789; English translation)
- French Treaties & Conventions of the Napoleonic era
- From the website Histoire du Consulat et du Premier Empire
- (1799 - 1815; French-language transcriptions)
- Browable and searchable database of French laws during the Napoleonic era
- From the website Histoire du Consulat et du Premier Empire
- (1798 - 1815; French-language transcriptions)
- (1798-1819; English translations)
- The civil code that still affects present-day law.
- (1804-1810; English translation)
- Royal monetary edicts and decrees from the mid ninth century until after the French Revolution.
- Also a good source for information on the succession of French kings.
- (843-1792; published transcriptions in pdf file).
- Under construction in reverse chronological order: most recent years available first.
- Documents from the Avalon Project
- (1778-1843; transcriptions and translations).
- Agreement concluded at Munich between Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy
- (29 September 1938; English translation)
- (25 June 1940; English translation)
- Ten French national constitutions since 1789 - compiled in the archives of the Prime Minister.
- (1789- present; transcriptions)
- Constitutional variants reproduced on the Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank.
- (1789 - present; photo facsimiles)
- Provided by the University of Würzburg.
- Current French civil and criminal codes in effect.
- Compiled by Legifrance.
- (French transcriptions)
- Law stipulating the use of the French language to be obligatory in commerce.
- (4 August 1994; French transcription)
- Press Releases of the French Senate
- (1997 - present; French transcriptions)
- Public website for access to French legal texts
- (French-language transcriptions with additional links to English and Spanish translations)
- Library of Congress guide to constitutional, legal and government documents.
- (Transcriptions and translations)
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