Most historical scholarship concerned with the Fronde has
investigated the Parlement of Paris. By focusing on the different
experience of high court judges in Aix-en-Provence, Sharon
Kettering illuminates the causes of resistance to royal authority
and offers a new understanding of the role of provincial officials
in seventeenth-century revolts. The author shows that political
tensions and alignments within the court and provincial capital
were as important in causing the revolts at Aix as the judges'
relationship with the crown. Describing the liaisons and
personalities that gave impetus to resistance, she traces the
emergence of an opposition party within the Parlement of Aix after
the first revolt in 1630. This party remained sporadically active
until its dispersal by the crown in 1659, and it provided the
leadership for the serious parlementary Fronde at Aix in January,
1649. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library
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