text: **Relations with the major colonies**
  
  Louis's legal reforms were enacted in his numerous Great Ordinances. Prior to that, France 
  was a patchwork of legal systems, with as many traditional legal regimes as there were 
  provinces, and two co-existing legal systems—customary law in the north and Roman civil 
  law in the south.[36] The*Grande Ordonnance de Procédure Civile*of 1667, the*Code*
  *Louis*, was a comprehensive legal code imposing a uniform regulation of civil procedure 
  throughout the kingdom. Among other things, it prescribed baptismal, marriage and death 
  records in the state's registers, not the church's, and it strictly regulated the right of the 
  *Parlements*to remonstrate.[37] The*Code Louis*later became the basis for the Napoleonic 
  code, which in turn inspired many modern legal codes. 
  
  Louis and his family portrayed as 
  Roman gods in a 1670 painting by 
  Jean Nocret. L to R: Louis's aunt, 
  Henriette-Marie; his brother, 
  Philippe, duc d'Orléans; the Duke's 
  daughter, Marie Louise d'Orléans, 
  and wife, Henriette-Anne Stuart; the 
  Queen-mother, Anne of Austria; 
  three daughters of Gaston 
  d'Orléans; Louis XIV; the Dauphin 
  Louis; Queen Marie-Thérèse;*la*
  *Grande Mademoiselle*. 