The Fronde
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The Fronde was a civil war fought in France between 1648 and 1653. The term comes from the French noun for slingshot, and was originally a derogatory term for the rebels.
Battle of the Faubourg St Antoine, 1652, outside the Bastille in Paris
Cardinal Mazarin
"Louis XIV Crushes the Fronde" by Gilles Guérin 1654
The Battle of the Dunes by Charles-Philippe Larivière, 1837. The battle was a decisive victory for France and its English allies over the Spanish in 1658
Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, commonly known as Turenne, was a French general and one of only six marshals to have been promoted Marshal General of France. The most illustrious memb
Portrait by Philippe de Champaigne
in the Château de Chantilly
Spanish troops in retreat after the siege of Den Bosch in 1629. Turenne distinguished himself during the siege.
Cardinal Richelieu