Second Fronde (Reign of Kings)

 

The Second Fronde was a series of civil wars and political machinations in France between 1848 and 1853, occurring in the midst of the Liberal Wars, which had begun in 1845. And was between Parliamentarians and Legitimists against the combined opposition of the nobility and absolutists. The dispute started because the 'Frondeurs ', political heirs of the Ancien Régime, attempted to exploit the plots against the young Louis and the Regency to restore their traditional feudal privileges from the Rump Parliament.

 

It coincided with the democratic Revolutions of 1848, when Maria Amalia revoked the Constitutional Charter of 1815. That started a series of loosely coordinated protests rebellions, worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies. The second Fronde ended when the British Intervention in France, when Royal Marines arrived to protect British interests, an action that effectively buttressed the rebellion.

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