Attempts are being made to regulate ranks and prepare for permanently living with people so far from their restoration." In his pride and his kingly illusions, Louis XIV.

had undertaken a burden which was to weigh heavily upon him to the very end of his reign.
Catholic Ireland had not acquiesced in the elevation of William of Orange to the throne of England; she invited over King James.

Personally brave, and blinded by his hopes, he set out from St.Germain on the 25th of February, 1689.

"Brother," said the king to him on taking leave, "the best I can wish you is not to see you back." He took with him a corps of French troops commanded by M.de Rosen, and the Count of Avaux as adviser.

"It will be no easy matter to keep any secret with the King of England," wrote Avaux to Louis XIV.; "he has said before the sailors of the St.Michael what he ought to have reserved for his greatest confidants.