. Lauzun: courtier and adventurer : the life of a friend of Louis XIV . withJames for the purpose of separating him from theEnglish Jacobites, so that Lauzun at once refused toform one of the Kings Council of three Ministers,saying that he did not understand the language, andfound it difficult to speak openly to people whowere not, he felt, friendly to France. At thisjuncture, affairs must be settled promptly ; and hetherefore proposed that he and Tyrconnel shouldconfer alone with the King,^ a proposition to whichJames assented, though the two separate Councilsmust have reduced aff^airs to eve
. Lauzun: courtier and adventurer : the life of a friend of Louis XIV . withJames for the purpose of separating him from theEnglish Jacobites, so that Lauzun at once refused toform one of the Kings Council of three Ministers,saying that he did not understand the language, andfound it difficult to speak openly to people whowere not, he felt, friendly to France. At thisjuncture, affairs must be settled promptly ; and hetherefore proposed that he and Tyrconnel shouldconfer alone with the King,^ a proposition to whichJames assented, though the two separate Councilsmust have reduced aff^airs to even worse confusionthan before ! Lauzun and Tyrconnel were on the most charmingterms, and they had an interview which Lauzun,at any rate, must have enjoyed extremely. He beganby following his instructions from Louvois, andspoke to Tyrconnel with friendship and deference,teUing him that he looked on him as the Viceroywho had saved Ireland, and that he was prepared tohelp and to obey him in everything. Tyrconnel 1 Lauzun to Seignelay^ Aplli^ ^690, Ministere de la From a photograph bj- Emery Walkerafter the painting in the Xationiil I ortrait Gahery by H. Rigaucl. THE DUKE OF TYRCONNEL. ^The Inseparables*^ 517 replied that a man like Lauzun could never be underany ones commands, and that he must beg him notto confuse him further by using that humble tone,but to oblige him by taking the command ofeverything.^ In fact the two, who were in thefuture to be scoffed at as the inseparables, werealready on terms of the most charming the end of the interview it was settled thatTyrconnel should be master, but that the two generalsshould serve together ; and Lauzun, who surely musthave felt qualms about his fitness for the formidabletask before him, hoped to save himself from re-sponsibility, by following the Viceroys lead ineverything. In this he was doubtless followingorders ; for Louvois certainly realised, when he gaveLauzun his instructions, that the only chance ofs
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