The Fronde: A French Revolution, 1648-1652

Revolutions in the Modern World

by Orest A. Ranum

Describes an unstable period in French history when state administrators declined tax payments and the judges of Paris refused to hear cases, and describes the results of this work stoppage

Genres: History, Nonfiction

386 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1993

About the author

Orest Ranum is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at John Hopkins University, Maryland, USA.

He specialized in French history of the late-sixteenth, seventeenth, and early-eighteenth centuries.