Beringhen, delighted with his rescue, and very grateful for the good treatment he had received, changed places with Guetem and his companions, led them to Ham, and in his turn treated them well.  He wrote to his wife and to Charnillart announcing his release, and these letters were read with much satisfaction by the King.

On Tuesday, the 29th of March, Beringhen arrived at Versailles, about eight o’clock in the evening, and went at once to the King, who was in the apartments of Madame de Maintenon, and who received him well, and made him relate all his adventures.  But the King was not pleased when he found the officers of the stable in a state of great delight, and preparing fireworks to welcome Beringhen back.  He prohibited all these marks of rejoicing, and would not allow the fireworks to be let off.  He had these little jealousies.  He wished that all should be devoted to him alone, without reserve and without division.  All the Court, however, showed interest in this return, and Beringhen was consoled by the public welcome he received for his fatigue.

Guetem and his officers, while waiting the pleasure of the King, were lodged in Beringhen’s house in Paris, where they were treated above their deserts.  Beringhen obtained permission for Guetem to see the King.  He did more; he presented Guetem to the King, who praised him for having so well treated his prisoner, and said that war always ought to be conducted properly.  Guetem, who was not without wit, replied, that he was so astonished to find himself before the greatest King in the world, and to find that King doing him the honour of speaking to him, that he had not power enough to answer.  He remained ten or twelve days in Beringhen’s house to see Paris, the Opera and the Comedy, and became the talk of the town.  People ran after him everywhere, and the most distinguished were not ashamed to do likewise.  On all sides he was applauded for an act of temerity, which might have passed for insolence.  Beringhen regaled him, furnished him with carriages and servants to accompany him, and, at parting, with money and considerable presents.  Guetem went on his parole to Rheims to rejoin his comrades until exchanged, and had the town for prison.  Nearly all the others had escaped.  The project was nothing less than to carry off Monseigneur, or one of the princes, his sons.

This ridiculous adventure gave rise to precautions, excessive in the first place, and which caused sad obstructions of bridges and gates.  It caused, too, a number of people to be arrested.  The hunting parties of the princes were for some time interfered with, until matters resumed their usual course.  But it was not bad fun to see, during some time, the terror of ladies, and even of men, of the Court, who no longer dared go abroad except in broad daylight, even then with little assurance, and imagining themselves everywhere in marvellous danger of capture.

I have related in its proper place the adventure of Madame la Princesse de Conti with Mademoiselle Choin and the attachment of Monseigneur for the latter.  This attachment was only augmented by the difficulty of seeing each other.