M.de Montmorin and M.
de Lamoignon were urgent for the recall of M.Necker.

The king's ill feeling against his late minister still continued.

"As long as M.Necker exists," said M.de Montmorin, "it is impossible that there should be any other minister of finance, because the public will always be annoyed to see that post occupied by any but by him." "I did not know M.Necker personally," adds M.de Montmorin in his notes left to Marmontel; "I had nothing but doubts to oppose to what the king told me about his character, his haughtiness, and his domineering spirit." Louis XVI.
yielded, however.

"Well!" he said, snappishly, "if it must be, recall him." M.de Breteuil was present.

"Your Majesty," said he, "has but just banished M.Necker he has scarcely arrived at Montargis; to recall him now would have a deplorable effect." He once more mentioned the name of Leonie de Brienne, and the king again yielded.