after some hesitation; "but leave me time to forewarn the queen, she is much attached to M.de Breteuil." When the king quitted Marie Antoinette, the situation had changed face; the disgrace of M.de Calonne was resolved upon.
The queen had represented the dissatisfaction and opposition of the notables, which "proceeded solely," she said, "from the mistrust inspired by the comptroller-general;" she had dwelt upon the merits and resources of the Archbishop of Toulouse.

"I don't like priests who haven't the virtues of their cloth," Louis XVI.

had answered dryly.

He called to the ministry M.Fourqueux, councillor of state, an old man, highly esteemed, but incapable of sustaining the crushing weight of affairs.

The king himself presented M.de Calonne's last projects to the Assembly of notables; the rumor ran that the comptroller-general was about to re-enter the cabinet.