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Fronde [frɒnd (French) frɔ̃d]

(Historical Terms) 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)

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

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Fronde (redirected from The Fronde)

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