Catinat marched into the plains of Turin at the head of fifty thousand men, an army greatly superior to that of the confederates.

Then the duke imparted to the ministers of the allies the proposals which France had made; represented the superior strength of her army; the danger to which he was exposed; and, finally, his inclination to embrace her offers.

On the twelfth of July a truce was concluded for a month, and afterwards prolonged till the fifteenth of September.

He wrote to all the powers engaged in the confederacy, except King William, expatiating on the same topics, and soliciting their consent.

Though each in particular refused to concur, he on the twenty-third day of August signed the treaty in public which he had before concluded in private.