France legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Access 1,892,474+ French laws, regulations, court decisions and regulatory materials from French government, judicial and regulatory institutions across 16 official portals. Search French legal data directly or connect it to your AI agent, legaltech product or research workflow through Lawstronaut's API and MCP server. Every record is linked to its official source and structured in the same format used across more than 150 jurisdictions.
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Which ordinance rewrote France's Loi n° 78-17 (Loi Informatique et Libertés) after the GDPR?
Ordonnance n° 2018-1125 du 12 décembre 2018, taken under Article 32 of Loi n° 2018-493 on personal data protection, which amended Loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978 relative à l'informatique, aux fichiers et aux libertés.
Source: Legifrance Gouv (www.legifrance.gouv.fr) — https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000037800506
Retrieved: 2026-08-05 · Version: 1 · Cited in-turn
The official French sources we cover
Lawstronaut collects French legal materials from official government, parliamentary, court, and regulator sources. Each record links back to its original source, with metadata such as issuing authority, publication date, legal link, portal, content type, and version where available.
Source categories: the national legislation portal and official journal · administrative and constitutional courts · data protection, financial, competition, energy and telecom regulators · government and ministry portals
- Légifrance (www.legifrance.gouv.fr)
- Conseil d'État (www.conseil-etat.fr)
- Conseil constitutionnel (www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr)
- CNIL — Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (www.cnil.fr)
- AMF — Autorité des Marchés Financiers (www.amf-france.org)
- BDIF — Base des décisions et informations financières (bdif.amf-france.org)
- ACPR — Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (acpr.banque-france.fr)
- Autorité de la Concurrence (www.autoritedelaconcurrence.fr)
- ARCEP (www.arcep.fr)
- CRE — Commission de régulation de l'énergie (www.cre.fr)
- Ministère de la Justice (www.justice.gouv.fr)
- Ministère de l'Économie et des Finances (www.tresor.economie.gouv.fr)
French legal source types covered
French legal coverage includes primary legislation, secondary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, enforcement documents, and legislative history where available.
Legislation & Regulations
Lois, ordonnances, décrets, arrêtés, codes, and other official legal instruments, taken directly from Légifrance (www.legifrance.gouv.fr) and the Journal officiel publications it carries.
Legislative History
Consolidated versions and amendment records from Légifrance where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Guidelines, décisions, délibérations, consultations, and enforcement materials from French regulators such as the CNIL, AMF, ACPR, Autorité de la Concurrence, ARCEP, and CRE.
Case Law
Administrative and constitutional decisions from official French sources, including the Conseil d'État and the Conseil constitutionnel, where available.
One French legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query French laws, regulations, court decisions, regulatory guidance, and enforcement materials through a REST API. Use structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version history to power legaltech products, compliance workflows, and internal research tools.
GET /v2/contents?iso=FR&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to French legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official French materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current French legal materials — official source links, metadata, and full text — before generating an answer, with a citation and timestamp on every response.
Build with Lawstronaut
Build French legal search, monitoring, compliance, research, and legal AI features without crawling, parsing, normalizing, and updating official sources yourself. We handle source discovery, ingestion, normalization, versioning, and change detection; you build the product.
What you can do with French legal data
- Retrieve legal metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and original source files where available
- Filter by jurisdiction, portal, issuing authority, authority type, language, status, and dates
- Access official legal links for citation and audit trails — citation, timestamp, and source link returned in the same turn
- Track point-in-time versions and article-level changes across French legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in French law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official French sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal French legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for French legal research
French legal information is spread across Légifrance and the Journal officiel, the administrative and constitutional courts, ministries, and a dense landscape of sector regulators. For humans, that means slow research. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, inconsistent formats, missing provenance, and weak citation trails.
Lawstronaut turns those sources into one structured legal data layer — source links, metadata, full text, versioning, and API/MCP access. Your product or agent retrieves the legal source directly instead of relying on generic web search or unverified model memory. Every answer carries a citation, a timestamp, and a link to the official document — the provenance that makes a legal research platform defensible to auditors and regulators.
About France legal coverage
France is a civil-law jurisdiction built on codified law. Consolidated codes, lois, ordonnances, décrets, and arrêtés are published on Légifrance (www.legifrance.gouv.fr), the state legal-publication portal that also carries the Journal officiel. Administrative case law sits with the Conseil d'État, and constitutional review with the Conseil constitutionnel. Regulatory guidance and enforcement come from bodies such as the CNIL (data protection), the AMF and ACPR (financial markets and prudential supervision), the Autorité de la Concurrence (competition), ARCEP (telecoms) and the CRE (energy), alongside ministry portals for justice, economy and finance, health, interior, and foreign affairs. Records are published in French.
French law moves quickly: consolidated codes on Légifrance change continuously, regulators publish a steady stream of délibérations, décisions and sanctions, and EU-derived rules — the GDPR alongside the Loi Informatique et Libertés — keep evolving. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps a French legal research answer correct today.
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Build French legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor French regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official French legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to French legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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