Crossword-Solution: FRONDEUR 8 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Then the Marquis de Simeuse, an old Burgundian, old Guiser, old leaguer, old _frondeur_ (he inherited the four great rancors of the nobility against royalty), came to live at Cinq-Cygne.

Will you facilitate the means of my fulfilling that mission, or will you not?” “I am astonished,” said Mazarin,—quite delighted at having recovered his memory, and bristling with malice,—“I am astonished, Monsieur—Athos—that a Frondeur like you should have accepted a mission for the Perfidious Mazarin, as used to be said in the good old times—” And Mazarin began to laugh, in spite of a painful cough, which cut short his sentences, converting them into sobs.

Truculent and self-confident as he was, he never acted against the royal authority in such a manner as to oblige the king to strike him down in secret; and it is difficult to believe that Louis XIV, peaceably seated on his throne, with all the enemies of his minority under his feet, should have revenged himself on the duke as an old Frondeur.

That idea, indeed, makes me forget that poor fellow Broussel altogether; and I now fail to recognize in you the whining complaints of that old Frondeur.

The king is sending me to make conquests among the Arabs.” “What is this you tell me, monseigneur?” “Strange, is it not? I, the Parisian _par essence_, I who have reigned in the faubourgs, and have been called King of the Halles,--I am going to pass from the Place Maubert to the minarets of Gigelli; from a Frondeur I am becoming an adventurer!” “Oh, monseigneur, if you did not yourself tell me that--” “It would not be credible, would it? Believe me, nevertheless, and we have but to bid each other farewell.