 The term is occasionally used to refer to the similar feudal systems of the time elsewhere in Europe - for example, in Switzerland.The administrative and social structures of the Ancien Régime resulted from years of state-building, legislative acts (like the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts), internal conflicts, and civil wars.The Valois Dynasty's attempts to reform them and re-establish control over the scattered political centres of the country were hindered by the Huguenot Wars (or Wars of Religion of 1562-1598).