1648: At the end of the Thirty
Years War, a civil war broke out in France.
Cardinal Mazarin, the prime minister of the young king Louis XIV was
driven from power. This conflict is
called “The War of the Fronde”. Mazarin
won and got back into power but this outbreak that, if successful, would have
limited the king’s power helped explain Louis XIV’s policy of absolute monarchy
later in his reign.
“The Fronde” is the name that was given to the anticourt party.
The word “fronde”
means a sling, and the origin of its use as a party name is attributed to an
epigram. http://dld.bz/heAWf
My French History website: https://french.historyweblog.com/
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