Fronde

Everybody's Encyelopedia · 1912 · p. 15
the name of a_ political faction which played a conspicuous ‘part in French history during the minority of Louis XIY., and which gave rise to the celebrated insurrectionary movement known historically as the War of the Fronde. The members of this party obtained the derisive name of Frondeurs (slingers), from the pertinacious lampoon warfare which they waged against both the powerful minister of that day, Cardinal Mazarin, and the Queen Regent, Anne of Austria.
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