Revolt of the Judges

Discarding the traditional view of the Fronde as an abortive revolution against "e;absolute monarchy"e; during the minority of Louis XIV, A. Lloyd Moote analyzes it by studying the ambivalent role of its leading institutional element, the Parlement of Paris. France's highest tribunal, dedicated to law and the principles of royal absolutism, the Parlement was paradoxically, at the center of the opp...