divulsion

Updated: May 23, 2025

If that union of the Princes between themselves and the Fronde faction had subsisted, the re-establishment of the royal authority would have been impossible: and the commencement of the reign of Louis the Fourteenth, who, although he had only completed his thirteenth year, was about, by the force of an exceptional law, to be declared of age, would have offered the spectacle, so frequent in French annals, of a state a prey to the divulsion of factions and the horrors of anarchy.

Sutherland Menzies - Political Women, Vol. 1