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The Fronde (1648-1653) was a series of French civil wars during the minority of Louis XIV, when Anne of Austria served as Queen Regent. The conflict pitted the royal government against both the Parlement of Paris and powerful nobles. Marie likely encountered this history through Alexandre Dumas's Musketeers novels, which are set in this period and prominently feature Anne d'Autriche. ↩
The Reaumur temperature scale, invented by Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur in 1730, sets the freezing point of water at 0 and the boiling point at 80 degrees. It was still commonly used at German spas in the 1870s. Twenty-four degrees Reaumur equals 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit). ↩