The Infanta had already started for Madrid; the Regent's two daughters, the young widow of Louis I.and Mdlle.

de Beaujolais, promised to Don Carlos, were on their way back to France; the advisers of Louis XV.

were still looking out for a wife for him.

Spain had been mortally offended, without the duke's having yet seen his way to forming a new alliance in place of that which he had just broken off.

Some attempts at arrangement with George I.had failed; an English princess could not abjure Protestantism.