ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the legislative and policy response to the Covid-19 pandemic in France. It aims at assessing how the French policymakers adapted to the pandemic in terms of regulation and policymaking. The chapter relies on the cross-referencing of ongoing findings from two research projects financed by the French National research Agency, the first one, "ANR Army," on the role of the armies in the "war" against the coronavirus and its perception by the population. The second research project, "ANR Localex" focuses on local and regional normative dynamics. It then analyzes the nature of the exceptional legislative framework in place at the national level, in light of the use by the French government of the armed forces to help manage the crisis, in a context where the involvement of military forces domestically is extremely regulated. The chapter also analyzes the normative dynamics at other levels of legislative and policymaking. © 2023 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.