In regards to french history- what were the Frondes?why did they occur and what did they accomplish?

Answer 1

Their were two between 1648–1653, the Fronde of the parlements and the Fronde of the nobles. The timing of the outbreak of the Fronde des parlements, directly after the Peace of Westphalia that ended the Thirty Years War, was significant. The nucleus of armed bands under aristocratic leaders were hardened veterans. The original goal of the insurrection was not revolutionary; its aim was to protect the ancient "liberties" of the nobles from encroachments by the royal power, to defend the established right of the parlements, which were more like courts of appeals than parliaments in the English sense, and especially the right of the Parlement of Paris to limit the king's power.

What did these revolts accomplish? They hardened a young Louis XIV, the "SUN KING" who would learn the lesson that the nobles must be controlled. Louis did that so effectively in the latter 1600s that he became the quintessential ABSOLUTE monarch which is what the Frondes were trying to stop in the first place.