m to bring it to the notice of the
king; but M, de Villars, who was well acquainted with the obstinacy of
Louis, who, as Baron de Peken says, "only saw the Reformers through the
spectacles of Madame de Maintenon," told d'Aygaliers that the last thing
he should do would be to give the king any hint of his plans, unless he
wished to see them come to nothing; on the contrary, he advised him to go
at once to Lyons and wait there for him, M. de Villars; for he would
probably be passing through that town in a few days, being almost certain
to be appointed governor of Languedoc in place of M. de Montrevel, who
had fallen under the king's displeasure and was about to be recalled. In
the course of the three interviews which d'Aygaliers had had with M. de
Villars, he had become convinced that de Villars was a man capable of
understanding his object; he therefore followed his advice, as he
believed his knowledge of the king to be correct, and left Paris for
Lyons.

The recall of M. de Montrevel had been brought about in the following
manner:--M. de Montrevel having just come to Uzes, learned that Cavalier
and his troops were in the neighbourhood of Sainte-Chatte; he immediately
sent M. de La Jonquiere, with six hundred picked marines and some
companies of dragoons from the regiment of Saint-Sernin, but half an hour
later, it having occurred to him that these forces were not sufficient,
he ordered M. de Foix, lieutenant of the dragoons of Fimarqon, to join M.
de La Jonquiere at Sainte-Chatte with a hundred soldiers of his regiment,
and to remain with him if he were wanted; if not, to return the same
night.

M. de Foix gave the necessary orders, chose a hundred of his bravest men,
put himself at their head, and joined M. de La Jonquiere, showing him his
orders; but the latter, confiding in the courage of his soldiers and
unwilling to share with anyone the glory of a victory of which he felt
assured, not only sent away M. de Foix, but begged him to go back to
Uzes, declaring to him that he had enough troops to fight and conquer all
the Camisards whom he might encounter; consequently the hundred dragoons
whom the lieutenant had brought with him were quite useless at
Sainte-Chatte, while on the contrary they might be very necessary
somewhere else. M. de Foix did not consider that it was his duty to
insist on remaining under these circumstances, and returned to Uzes,
while M. de La Jonquiere continued his route in order to pass the ni