I will use all my efforts to maintain myself upon a throne on which God has placed me, and on which you, after Him, have set me, and nothing but death shall wrench me from it or make me yield it." War re-commenced on all sides.

The king had just consented at last to give Chamillard his discharge.

"Sir, I shall die over the job," had for a long time been the complaint of the minister worn out with fatigue.

"Ah! well, we will die together," had been the king's rejoinder.
France was dying, and Chamillard was by no means a stranger to the cause.
Louis XIV.

put in his place Voysin, former superintendent of Hainault, entirely devoted to Madame de Maintenon.