Fronde

British  

/ frɔ̃d, frɒnd /

noun

1. French history either of two rebellious movements against the ministry of Cardinal Mazarin in the reign of Louis XIV, the first led by the parlement of Paris (1648–49) and the second by the princes (1650–53)

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Etymology

Origin of Fronde

C18: from French, literally: sling, the insurgent parliamentarians being likened to naughty schoolboys using slings

Example Sentences

The condition of Toulon was somewhat disturbed, for the wars of the Fronde were then raging in France, and the town, at that moment, was for the Prince of Cond� against the court.

From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva

But how without it, under the circumstances that succeeded to the religious wars and the Fronde, anything like a positive constitution ever could have arisen in France, De Tocqueville does not say.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various

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

Mademoiselle was the last to disappear of the grand figures belonging to the time of the Fronde.

From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Barine, Arvede

The other kind resorted to the methods of the Fronde; they made war by pin-pricks, by bursts of laughter, with all the resources of French gayety and wit.

From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber