The scene was changed the next morning by the Count d'Artois.

This young prince had received from the hand of nature all the exterior qualifications of a chevalier: he spoke to the sovereigns in the name of the thrones; to the emperor in the name of an outraged and dethroned sister.

The whole emigration, with its misfortunes, its nobility, its valour, its illusions, seemed personified in him.

The Marquis de Bouille and M.de Calonne, the genius of war and the genius of intrigue, had followed him to these conferences.

He obtained several audiences of the two sovereigns, he inveighed with respect and energy against the temporising system of the emperor, and violently roused the Germanic sluggishness.
The emperor and the king of Prussia authorised the Baron de Spielman for Austria, the Baron de Bischofswerden for Prussia, and M.de Calonne for France, to meet the same evening, and draw up a declaration for the signature of the monarchs.
The Baron de Spielman, under the immediate dictation of the emperor, drew up the document.