"The Court of Versailles was much astonished at the message it got
from Broglio; Court of Versailles had always calculated that
Broglio could keep Bavaria; and had gone into extensive measures
for maintaining him there. Experienced old Marechal de Noailles has
a new French Army, 70,000 or more, assembled in the Upper Rhine for
that and the cognate objects [of whom, more specially, anon]:
Noailles, by order from Court, has detached 12,000, who are now
marching their best, to reinforce Broglio;--and indeed the Court
'had already appointed the Generals and Staff-Officers for
Broglio's Bavarian Army,' and gratified many men by promotions,
which now went to smoke! [Espagnac, i. 190.]

"Versailles, however, has to expedite the order: 'Come home, then.'
Order or no order, Broglio's posts are all crackling off again,
bursting aloft like a chain of powder-mines; Broglio is plunging
head foremost, towards Donauworth, towards Ingolstadt, his place of
arms; Seckendorf now welcome to join him, but unable to do anything
when joined. Blustering Broglio has no steadfastness of mind;
explodes like an inflammable body, in this crackling off of the
posts, and becomes a mere whirlwind of flaming gases. Old snuffling
Seckendorf, born to ill success in his old days, strong only in
caution, how is he to quench or stay this crackling of the posts?
Broglio blusters, reproaches, bullies; Seckendorf quarrels with him
outright, as he may well do: 'JARNI-BLEU, such a delirious
whirlwind of a Marechal; mere bickering flames and soot!'--and
looks out chiefly to keep his own skin and that of his poor
Bavarians whole.

"The unhappy Kaiser has run from Munchen again, to Augsburg for