The Fronde

195 Pages·1935·9.601 MB·English

by  Paul Rice Doolin

HARVARD HISTORICAL STUDIES
PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
FROM THE INCOME OF
THE HENRY WARREN TORREY FUND
VOLUME XXXIX
HARVARD HISTORICAL STUDIES
I. The Suppression of the African XIX. The Granger Movement. By
Slave-Trade to the United States S. J. Buck.
of America, 1638-1870. By W. E. XX. Burgage Tenure in Medieval
B. DuBois. England. By Morley de Wolf
II. The Contest over the Ratification Hemmeon.
of the Federal Constitution in XXI. An Abridgment of the Indian
Massachusetts. By S. B. Harding. Affairs transacted in the colony
III. A Critical Study of Nullification of New York from 1678 to 1751.
in South Carolina. By D. F. By Peter Wraxall. Edited with an
Houston. introduction by Charles Howard
IV. Nominations for Elective Office Mcllwain.
in the United States. By Freder- XXII. English Field Systems. By
ick W. Dallinger. Howard Levi Gray.
XXIII. The Second Partition of
V. A Bibliography of British Mu-
Poland. By Robert Howard Lord.
nicipal History, including Gilds
XXIV. Norman Institutions. By
and Parliamentary Representation.
Charles Homer Haskins.
By Charles Gross.
XXV. Robert Curthose, Duke of
VI. The Liberty and Free Soil Par- Normandy. By Charles Wendell
ties in the Northwest. By Theo- David.
dore Clarke Smith. XXVI. Bismarck's Diplomacy at its
VII. The Provincial Governor in the Zenith. By Joseph Vincent Fuller.
English Colonies of North Amer- XXVII. Studies in the History of
ica. By Evarts Boutell Greene. Medieval Science. By Charles H.
VIII. The County Palatine of Dur- Haskins.
ham. A Study in Constitutional XXVIII. The Origins of the War of
History. By G. T. Lapsley. 1870. New Documents from the
IX. The Anglican Episcopate and German Archives. By Robert H.
the American Colonies. By A. L. Lord.
Cross. XXIX. The Monroe Doctrine, 1823-
1826. By Dexter Perkins.
X. The Administration of the Amer-
XXX. The Franco-Russian Alliance,
ican Revolutionary Army. By
1890-1894. By W. L. Langer.
Louis Clinton Hatch.
XXXI. Fur Trade and Empire.
XI. The Civil Service and the Pat- George Simpson's Journal ... to-
ronage. By Carl Russell Fish. gether with accompanying docu-
XII. The Development of Freedom ments. Edited by Frederick Merk.
of the Press in Massachusetts. By XXXII. The Schleswig - Holstein
C. A. Duniway. Question. By Lawrence D. Steefel.
XIII. The Seigniorial System in XXXIII. The Presbyterian Churches
Canada. By W. B. Munro. and the Federal Union, 1861-
XIV. The Frankpledge System. By 1869. By Lewis G. Vander Velde.
William Alfred Morris. XXXIV. The Influence of the Com-
mons on Early Legislation. By
XV. The Public Life of Joseph
Howard L. Gray.
Dudley. By Everett Kimball.
XXXV. The National Workshops.
XVI. Memoire de Marie Caroline, By Donald Cope McKay.
Reine de Naples. Edited by Rob- XXXVI. Fraoz Joseph and Bis-
ert Matteson Johnston. marck before 1866. By C. W. Clark.
XVII. The Barrington-Bernard Cor- XXXVII. The Caracas Company
respondence. Edited by E. Chan- 1728-1784. By Roland D. Hussey.
ning.
XXXVIII. Great Britain and the
XVIII. The Government of the Ot- Cyprus Convention Policy of
toman Empire in the Time of 1878. By Dwight E. Lee.
Suleiman the Magnificent. By XXXIX. The Fronde. By Paul
Albert Howe Lybyer. Rice Doolin.
THE FRONDE
BY
PAUL RICE DOOLIN
Assistant Professor and Tutor in History and
Literature, Harvard University
CAMBRIDGE
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1935
COPYRIGHT, 1935
BY THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF
HARVARD COLLEGE
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
"Car pour parier du desordre qui peult aduenir par l'imperfec-
tion des chefz et monarques, il y a plusieurs remedes pour re-
frener leur auctorite absolue, s'ilz sont deprauez et voluntaires.
Et plus encores de ceulx qui pourroient auoir le maniment du
royaume, s'ilz sont du tout imbecilles par faulte d'aage, ou
autrement."
Seyssel in La Grand' Monarchie de France

THE author would here express his gratitude to the American
Council of Learned Societies and to the Harvard University
Committee on Research in the Social Sciences for grants which
permitted him to pursue his studies abroad.

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION XI
CHAPTER
I. RESISTANCE OF THE PARLEMENT (1648-1649) . . .. 3
1. Victory of the Parlement 3
2. Reform of the Kingdom 10
3. The Blockade of Paris 21
II. REVOLTS OF THE PRINCES (1649-1653) 29
1. Arrest of the Princes 29
2. The First War 36
3. Cond6 and the Regent 43
4. The Second War 50
ΠΙ. DECLARATIONS OF THE PUBLIC AUTHORITIES . .. 58
1. Declarations of the Opposition 58
2. Declarations of the Government 78
IV. DEFENSE OF THE GOVERNMENT 84
1. Absolutism 84
2. Theory of Absolutism 100
V. DEFENSE OF THE OPPOSITION (I) 111
1. The Monarchy limited by Law and the Right of Resistance . HI
2. Divided Authority under Law. Claude Joly 121
VI. DEFENSE OF THE OPPOSITION (II) 135
1. Authority of the Parlement, of the Princes, of the Estates . 135
2. The Minority 148
3. The Minist£riat 152
4. Theory of Constitutionalism 156
BIBLIOGRAPHY 167
I. FOR CHAPTERS I AND II 167
II. FOR CHAPTER III 169
ΠΙ. FOR CHAPTER IV 169
IV. FOR CHAPTERS V AND VI 172