He then attached himself to another mistress, a young Frenchwoman, daughter of an architect established at Madrid, and for some years his activity reposed in the happiness of a participated love.

An order of the Duc de Choiseul recalled him to Paris,--he hesitated: his beloved herself compelled him, and sacrificed him as if she had from afar anticipated his fame.

He reached Paris, and was named quartermaster-general of the French army in Corsica, where, as everywhere else, he greatly distinguished himself.

At the head of a detachment of volunteers, he seized on the Chateau de Corte, the last asylum and home of Paoli.

He retained for himself the library of this unfortunate patriot.