you are in a dress very different from that which I first saw you in at Bruxelles, when you taught the Duchess of Guise to dance the triolets:  and I am afraid your affairs are not in so flourishing a condition as they were the campaign after I had given you the company you mention.”  They were talking in this manner, when the Duke d’Arscot, followed by the gentlemen above mentioned, came up on full gallop.  The Chevalier de Grammont was saluted by the whole company before he could say a word.  Soon after arrived an immense number of others of his acquaintance, with many people, out of curiosity, on both sides, who, seeing him upon the eminence, assembled together with the greatest eagerness; so that the two armies, without design, without truce, and without fraud, were going to join in conversation, if, by chance, Monsieur de Turenne had not perceived it at a distance.  The sight surprised him:  he hastened that way; and the Marquis d’Humieres acquainted him with the arrival of the Chevalier de Grammont, who wished to speak to the sentry before he went to the headquarters:  he added, that he could not comprehend how the devil he had managed to assemble both armies around him, for it was hardly a minute since he had left him.  “Truly,” said Monsieur de Turenne, “he is a very extraordinary man; but it is only reasonable that he should let us now have a little of his company, since he has paid his first visit to the enemy.”  At these words he despatched an aide-de-camp, to recal the officers of his army, and to acquaint the Chevalier de Grammont with his impatience to see him.

This order arrived at the same time, with one of the same nature, to the enemy’s officers.  The Prince de Conde, being informed of this peaceable interview, was not the least surprised at it, when he heard that it was occasioned by the arrival of the Chevalier de Grammont.  He only gave Lussan orders to recal the officers, and to desire the Chevalier to meet him at the same place the next day; which the Chevalier promised to do, provided Monsieur de Turenne should approve of it, as he made no doubt he would.

His reception in the king’s army was equally agreeable as that which he had experienced from the enemy.  Monsieur de Turenne esteemed him no less for his frankness than for the poignancy of his wit:  he took it very kindly that he was the only courtier who came to see him in a time so critical as the present:  the questions which he asked him about the court were not so much for information, as to divert himself with his manner of relating their different apprehensions and alarms.  The Chevalier de Grammont advised him to beat the enemy, if he did not choose to be answerable for an enterprise which he had undertaken without consulting the Cardinal.  Monsieur de Turenne promised him he would exert himself to the utmost to follow his advice, and assured him, that if he succeeded, he would make the queen keep her word with him; and concluded with saying, that he