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Fronde

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n.1.(F. Hist.) A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.


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My lord, Fronde is the name the discontented give to their party.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
In fact, after all the commotions of the Fronde, of the early period of which we formerly attempted to give a sketch, Louis de Conde had made a public, solemn, and frank reconciliation with the court.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Sometimes, ascending hills, when the winded horse breathed hard from his red nostrils, and heaved his flanks, the captain, left to more freedom of thought, reflected on the prodigious genius of Aramis, a genius of acumen and intrigue, a match to which the Fronde and the civil war had produced but twice.
The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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