frondeuse

Updated: June 9, 2025

Conflicts of the heart were about to succeed to those political storms from whose effects she had just recovered. The most vainglorious of the daughters of France was destined to extinguish with the wet blanket of vile prose the brilliancy of a long and romantic career. History, justly severe upon the Fronde, ought not, we think, to treat too harshly the Frondeuse of the blood-royal.

Sutherland Menzies - Political Women, Vol. 2

"Ah, traitor!" muttered D'Artagnan, leaning toward Aramis and whispering in his ear, "you have made us swear on the crucifix of a Frondeuse." The Ferry across the Oise. We hope that the reader has not quite forgotten the young traveler whom we left on the road to Flanders.

Alexandre Dumas - Twenty Years After