Category:The Fronde

Articles relating to the Fronde (1648-1653), a series of civil wars in the Kingdom of France, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War, which had begun in 1635. King Louis XIV confronted the combined opposition of the princes, the nobility, the law courts (parlements), as well as most of the French people, and managed to subdue them all. The dispute started when the government of France issued seven fiscal edicts, six of which were to increase taxation. The parlements resisted, questioned the constitutionality of the King's actions,  and sought to check his powers.