The Duke of Orleans liked him and relished him.

He regarded him and all he did as work of his own creation.

He liked, moreover, extraordinary and out-of-the-way methods, and he embraced them the more readily in that he saw the resources which had become so necessary for the state and all the ordinary operations of finance vanishing away.

This liking of the Regent's wounded Noailles, as being adopted at his expense.

He wanted to be sole master in the matter of finance, and all the eloquence of Law could not succeed in convincing him." The chancellor stood firm; the Parliament, which ever remained identified in his mind with his country, was in the same way opposed to Law.