"Henri V." soon declared that he would neither accept any condition nor grant a single guarantee as to the character of his future rule.

Above all, he declared that he would never give up the white flag of the _ancien regime_.

In his eyes the tricolour, which, shortly after the fall of the Bastille, Louis XVI.

had recognised as the flag of France, represented the spirit of the Great Revolution, and for that great event he had the deepest loathing.

As if still further to ruin his cause, the Count announced his intention of striving with all his might for the restoration of the Temporal Power of the Pope.