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It was accomplished in excellent order, and without disturbance from the enemy; but our loss was very great, many officers of rank being among the dead. Such was our first exploit in Italy; all the fault of which was attributed to Catinat. Tesse and Vaudemont did everything in their power to secure his disgrace.
Every preparation was at once made to defend the place. Tesse was in command. The delay of a day on the part of the enemy saved Toulon, and it may be said, France. M. de Savoie had been promised money by the English. They disputed a whole day about the payment, and so retarded the departure of the fleet from Nice.
Russia, but lately so attentive to France, was making advances to Spain. "The czar's envoy is the most taciturn Muscovite that ever came from Siberia," wrote Marshal Tesse. "Goodman Don Miguel Guerra is the minister with whom he treats, and the effect of eight or ten apoplexies is, that he has to hold his head with his hands, else his mouth would infallibly twist round over his shoulder.
André is no woman if she does not try to retaliate for that retort of yours." After stopping in the rue Dauphine for the billets, which Madame de Tessé had again been able to obtain for Mr. Morris through the interest of the Duchesse d'Orléans, the three gentlemen drove straight to the Salle des Menus Plaisirs, and, by nine o'clock, were seated in the great gallery reserved for visitors.
"A grey hat," replied the King; "where the devil did you learn that?" "From M. de, Lauzun, Sire, for whom you created the charge," said Tesse, all embarrassment. On the instant, the good Lauzun vanished, bursting with laughter, and the King assured Tesse that M. de Lauzun had merely been joking with him. I never saw a man so confounded as Tesse at this.
I shall write by another opportunity, perhaps a more speedy one, to Madame de Tesse. I entreat you to present her with my tender respects. If M. de Tesse, M. de Mun, M. de Neiailly, M. Senac~ retain a kind remembrance of me, deign to present my compliments to them.
M. le Duc d'Orleans agreed with me, and the next day sent for him and gave him his orders. When it was known that the Czar was near Dunkerque, the Regent sent the Marquis de Neelle to receive him at Calais, and accompany him until they met the Marechal de Tesse, who was not to go beyond Beaumont to wait for him.
In order to hint to Marechal de Tesse that he did wrong in being so familiar with the common people, he called out to him one night in the Salon at Marly, "Marshal, pray give me a pinch of snuff; but let it be good that, for example, which I saw you taking this morning with Daigremont the chairman."
Next came Berwick, who was by no means, as we have seen, to be ranked amongst her friends Berwick, whom Louis XIV. had sent in spite of her, in spite of what she had said of Tessé, who, by his own account, had failed the first time before Barcelona only because he had been prevented from commencing the siege soon enough.
The King amused himself much in pointing out the disposition of the troops to the ladies of the Court, and in the evening showed them a grand review. A very pleasant adventure happened at this review to Count Tesse, colonel of dragoons.
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