If gratitude and affection towards your subjects are to you pressing reasons for remaining with them, I may say that you owe me the same sentiments; you owe them to your own house, to your own country, before Spain.

All that I can do for you is to leave you once more the choice, the necessity for concluding peace becoming every day more urgent." The choice of Philip V.was made; he had already written to his grandfather to say that he would renounce all his rights of succession to the throne of France rather than give up the crown of Spain.

This decision was solemnly enregistered by the Cortes.

The English required that the Dukes of Berry and Orleans should, likewise make renunciation of their rights to the crown of Spain.

Negotiations began again, but war began again at the same time as the negotiations.
The king had given Villars the command of the army of Flanders.