:Fronde
An alliance of French nobles and the judges of the Parlement during the minority of Louis XIV who resented the Regent, Anne of Austria and Mazarin, her Italian foreign minister, and who supported parliamentary reforms to limit the power of the monarchy.  The defeat of the Fronde in 1652, returned power to the monarchy.
:Versailles
The official residence of the Kings of France from 1682 until 1790. It was originally a hunting lodge, built in 1624, by Louis XIII.