text: The*Frondeurs*, political heirs of the disaffected feudal aristocracy, sought to protect their 
  increasingly centralized royal government. 
  traditional feudal privileges from 
  Furthermore, they believed their traditional influence and authority was being usurped by 
  the recently ennobled bureaucrats (the*Noblesse de Robe*, or "nobility of the robe"), who 
  administered the kingdom and on whom the monarchy increasingly began to rely. This 
  belief intensified the nobles' resentment. 
  
  the 
  
  In 1648, Anne and Mazarin attempted to tax members of the*Parlement de Paris*. The 
  members refused to comply and ordered all of the king's earlier financial edicts burned. 
  Buoyed by the victory of*Louis, duc d'Enghien*(later known as*le Grand Condé*) at the 
  Battle of Lens, Mazarin, on Queen Anne's insistence, arrested certain members in a show 
  of force.[24] The most important arrest, from Anne's point of view, concerned Pierre 
  Broussel, one of the most important leaders in the*Parlement de Paris*. 
  Louis XIV in 1643, by Claude Deruet 
  
  People in France were complaining about the expansion of royal authority, the high rate of 
  taxation, and the reduction of the authority of the Parlement de Paris and other regional 
  representative entities. Paris erupted in rioting as a result, and Anne was forced, under 
  intense pressure, to free Broussel. Moreover, on the night of 9–10 February 1651, when 
  Louis was twelve, a mob of angry Parisians broke into the royal palace and demanded to 
  see their king. Led into the royal bed-chamber, they gazed upon Louis, who was feigning 
  sleep, were appeased, and then quietly departed.[25] The threat to the royal family 
  prompted Anne to flee Paris with the king and his courtiers. 