---
id: "fr_merimee"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["government"]
country: ["FR"]
langs: ["fr"]
quality: 90
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/fr_merimee"
---

# Mérimée heritage identifier (`fr_merimee`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Identifier of a record of the Mérimée database of the French Ministry of Culture on architectural heritage: PA for protected monuments (monuments historiques), IA for the general inventory and EA, with two digits or 2A/2B for the department, then six digits, as in PA00084643. Related bases of the ministry use other prefixes, such as SPR for remarkable heritage sites (sites patrimoniaux remarquables). Data often lists several ids separated by semicolons.

- Parent datatype: `id`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Government related (government)
- Countries: France (FR)
- Languages: French (fr)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:[PEI]A\d[0-9AB]\d{6}|ACR\d{7}|MDI\d{3}B?|JAR\d{7}|SPR\d{7}|PJR\d{8})$
```

## Examples

- `PA00084643` — Protected monument
- `IA67009579` — Inventory record in Bas-Rhin
- `SPR4400043` — Remarkable heritage site
- `PA0008464` (invalid example) — Too short

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P380`

## Translations

- fr: Référence Mérimée

## Sources

- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P380>
- doc: <https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/fr_merimee.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/FR/government/fr_merimee.yaml>