Fronde ap world history definition
ABSOLUTISM
When Louis XIV of France ascended to the throne at the age of four, the French nobles immediately began to plot how to overthrow him during the Fronde, a series of civil wars in France. When Louis XIV began actively ruling as an adult, he launched a concerted program to limit the power of the nobility. He moved the capital to Versailles, diluted the ranks of the nobility by selling titles of nobility, and ensured that the military answered directly to the king. In doing so, he undermined the actual power of the nobility by making political and social privileges dependent on the will of the king.
The example of the French, led other European monarchs, especially in Prussia and Russia, to begin to consolidate power and rule as unquestionable absolute monarchs. These rulers typically justified their claim to supreme power by divine right and argued that any attempt by their subjects to limit their power, through a parliament or a constitution, could be interpreted as a challenge against God.
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The steady increase in royal power in France was dramatically interrupted in 1648 by the outbreak of a series of challenges to absolutism that came to be known collectively as the
Fronde
. From 1648 to 1653, the Fronde plunged France into a somewhat toned-down version of the disorders it had experienced during the wars of religion. The king was driven from his capital, several provinces revolted, and revolutionary claims for the rights of magistrates, nobles, and even some of the common people to participate in government were put forward. The Fronde ended, however, with a restoration of absolute royal authority rather than a change in the French system of government. For historians, the Fronde raises fascinating questions about the failure of resistance to develop into a genuine revolution, like the one that occurred in England at almost the same time (1640-1660) or the one that occurred in France itself in 1789.
The deaths of Cardinal Richelieu in 1642 and Louis XIII in 1643 plunged France into another peri
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ultimate power of the state rests in the hand of the king.
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belief that god gave kings power to rule
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takes over for Louis XIII, considered world’s first prime minister.
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consolidate monarchy, control nobles, control the Hapsburgs.
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given power by Queen Anne of Austria, Italian, attempted to carry on Richelieu’s policies. Parlement of Paris does not like him and tries to oppose his tax.
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Political History
The July 14th, 1789 storming and destruction of the Bastille by the citizens of Paris marked the beginning of the “journées.” The “journées” were otherwise known as incidents in which groups of French citizens banded together to take the Revolution into their own hands, often through destructive and/or violent means. This pattern would persist, again and again, throughout the entire Revolution, culminating in and coinciding with the infamous Reign of Terror. After the fall of the Bastille, the National Constituent Assembly very quickly realized that it was no longer entirely in control of the Revolution; instead, the French people were determined to play a part and would continue to do so. The reaction to such events within the Assembly was decidedly mixed; many members were disturbed by these outbreaks of disruption, but many others (most notably Maximillian Robespierre), saw the “journées” as crucial opportunity for power and control of the building Revolutionary movement.