Fronde
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Fronde
C18: from French, literally: sling, the insurgent parliamentarians being likened to naughty schoolboys using slings
Example Sentences
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Thenceforward the Fronde becomes a story of sordid intrigues and half-hearted warfare, losing all trace of its first constitutional phase.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
Party feeling ran high at the exiled Court, which, with the suppression of the first rebellion of the Fronde, took shape again.
From Henrietta Maria by Haynes, Henrietta
The military record of the first or “parliamentary” Fronde is almost blank.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
He became the keynote of the impulse which caused the regeneration of provincial life, almost ruined by the wars of the Fronde.
From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Barine, Arvede
So long and difficult in certain regions was the uplifting of France, after the wars of the Fronde, never taken very seriously by historians, doubtless because too many women were concerned in them.
From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Barine, Arvede
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