He presented Dumouriez to his friends of the Assembly, to Guadet, Vergniaud, Roland, Brissot, and De Grave: communicated to them his own astonishment at, and confidence in, the twofold faculties of Dumouriez as diplomatist and soldier.

He spoke of him as of a concealed saviour, whom fate had reserved for liberty.

He conjured them to attach to themselves a man whose greatness would enhance their own.
They had scarcely seen Dumouriez before they were convinced.

His intellect was electrical: it struck before they had time to anatomise it.

The Girondists presented him to De Grave, and De Grave to the king, who offered him the temporary management of foreign affairs, until M.de Lessart, sent before the _Haute Cour_, had proved his innocence to his judges, and could resume the place reserved for him in the council.
Dumouriez refused the post of minister _pro tempore_, which would injure and weaken his position before all parties by rendering him suspected by all.