Article

An article is a textual unit inside a code or a LODA text, identified by a LEGIARTI. On the domain side, facades return Article objects (a Pydantic v2 model defined in pylegifrance/models/code/models.py).

Main fields

Field	Type	Role
id	str	LEGIARTI, unique identifier
number	str	official number ("L36-11", "1382")
title	str | None	label
content	str	raw text
content_html	str | None	formatted HTML text
cid	str | None	parent code LEGITEXT
code_name	str | None	code name ("Code civil")
version_date	datetime | None	version date (auto-parsed from Unix timestamp or ISO)
legal_status	str | None	legal status — see /en/concepts/cid-and-versioning for the full list (VIGUEUR, VIGUEUR_AVEC_TERME, VIGUEUR_DIFFEREE, ABROGE, …)
url	str | None	legifrance.gouv.fr URL

Useful method: article.format_citation() → "Code civil, art. 1 (version du 01/01/2020)".

Direct fetch

Via Fond Code:

fetcher = code.fetch_article("LEGIARTI000006419305")
article = fetcher.at("2022-01-01")   # version at a date

Legifrance terminology

Identifier	Role
LEGITEXT…	identifier of a code or a LODA text
LEGIARTI…	identifier of an article
JURITEXT…	identifier of a case law decision

See the official Legifrance glossary in Official Légifrance API glossary (DILA).

See also

• /en/concepts/generated-models — where the raw shape comes from.
• /en/entities/fond-code — facade that produces articles.