frondeur

This brilliant young officer, by nature somewhat a frondeur, was finally guilty of expressions so disrespectful as to lead to his removal shortly before that of Paoli.

From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose

Diana dismissed it with contempt, as the shaft of a frondeur discredited by both parties.

From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Mrs. Humphry Ward

The loss was indeed serious; for the young orator was far more than a frondeur.

From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose

Proud, hard to work with, jealous, and irascible, he was essentially the leader of opposition, the grumbler, and the frondeur.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by William Hunt

And the burden of his song ran thus: A frondeur wind Got up to-day, 'Gainst Mazarin It blows, they say.

From The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes by Rafael Sabatini

Among the frondeurs are former finance minister Arnaud Montebourg, former education minister Benoît Hamon, and former culture minister Aurélie Filippetti of the Green party, who were sacked from the cabinet after publicly criticising the government.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2014

But then Paris was ever "in the opposition" and Parisians have ever been frondeurs.

From My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil

Mr Tadpole knows all about it; he has liaisons with the frondeurs.

From Sybil, or the Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

And these two boys are not the "frondeurs" of the Paris streets, but the highest dignitaries, of France—her king and her royal prince.

From Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times by Elbridge Streeter Brooks

The present generation of Muscovite frondeurs, who continue to rail against Western Europe and the pedantic officialism of St. Petersburg, are of a more modern and less academic type.

From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace