Le Code Noir

Le Code Noir (transl. The Black Code), was a decree passed by France's King Louis XIV in 1685. The Code Noir ordered all Jews out of the colony, forbade the exercise of any other religion, other than the "Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Faith", restricted the activities of free Blacks (affranchis) and defined the brutal conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire. This law was in effect for over a century, although the slave-masters often ignored all provisions dealing with the rights of slaves and continued their cruel exploitation with impunity.

Source

 * Édit du Roi, Touchant la Police des Isles de l'Amérique Française (Paris, 1687), 28–58.