The Duke of Lorraine refused the conditions on which the king proposed to restore to him his duchy; so Louis XIV.

kept Lorraine.
The King of France was at the pinnacle of his greatness and power.
"Singly against all," as Louvois said, he had maintained the struggle against Europe, and he came out of it victorious; everywhere, with good reason, was displayed his proud device, _Nec pluribus impar_.

"My will alone," says Louis XIV.

in his Memoires, "concluded this peace, so much desired by those on whom it did not depend; for, as to my enemies, they feared it as much as the public good made me desire it, and that prevailed on this occasion over the gain and personal glory I was likely to find in the continuation of the war.

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