important duty.

This proposition was so clear and promised to produce such useful
results, that although the prejudice against the Reformers was very
strong, Baron d'Aygaliers found supporters who were at once intelligent
and genuine in the Duke de Chevreuse and the Duke de Montfort, his son.
These two gentlemen brought about a meeting between the baron and
Chamillard, and the latter presented him to the Marechal de Villars, to
whom he showed his petition, begging him 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,