Series of civil wars in France between 1648 and 1653.
1 On recovering from his wounds, the war of the Fronde broke out.
2 This little...business of mine was built by the revolutionaries of the Fronde .
3 You and I wish for a Fronde , but I don't expect one.
4 The Fronde was but a paltry interlude and a sanguinary game between parties.
5 Did the French trifle equally even during the ridiculous war of the Fronde ?
6 Witness McVey Napier's Edinburgh Review correspondence and Mr. Fronde 's Carlyle correspondence.
7 A civil war known as the Fronde was the result.
8 Her Character-HerHeroic Part in the Fronde - Her Exile - Literary Diversions of her Salon-A Romantic Episode
9 Condé, elated by having beaten the Fronde , claimed a lion's share in the government.
10 If the Fronde had held its position, she might very probably have held hers.
11 The Cardinal de Retz comes in, and they recall the fatal souvenirs of the Fronde .
12 The senseless intrigues of the Fronde affect the bewildered student of those times as though
13 But the army was faithful to the king, and without it the Fronde was powerless.
14 The Fronde was the last campaign of the aristocracy.
15 Inside were the French torpedo boats Fronde and Pistolet and the torpedo boat destroyer D'Iberville.
16 At luncheon we talked of the time of the Fronde - Alathea is so wonderfully well read.
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