La Grande Madamoiselle

Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, orders the cannon to be fired during the civil war known as The Fronde.

Paris was once again in a state of panic when the on the eve of the Battle of the Faubourg Saint Antoine, Mademoiselle, in order to allow the Prince of Condé into the city which was dominated by Turenne, fired from the Bastille on the army of Turenne on 2 July 1652. Mazarin remarked "with that cannon, Mademoiselle has shot her husband

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