It is a curious fact that the French verb fronder, as well the noun Frondeur, are used to describe those who condemn the measures of government; and more extensively, designates any hyperbolical and malignant criticism, or any sort of condemnation.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)"
Isaac Disraeli
While some of them indulged in an idle and theoretical Republicanism, and others in the old unpractical Frondeur spirit, eager to pull down but careless about building up, Montesquieu had conceived the idea of a limited monarchy, not identical with that of England, but in many ways similar to it; an ideal which in the first quarter of the eighteenth century might have been put in practice with far better chance of success than in the first quarter of the nineteenth.
"A Short History of French Literature"
George Saintsbury
The Fronde left behind it a sense of littleness, of poverty-stricken humanity, and this particular Frondeur had seen the mask drop from the features of his fellow-men.
"Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France"
Edmund Gosse