A cabinet-council was called in her apartment.

The rest of the ministry declared for the treaty of partition; the king affected a kind of neutrality.

The dauphin spoke for his son with an air of resolution he had never assumed before; Pontchartain seconded his argument; madame de Main-tenon asked, what the duke of Anjou had done to provoke the king, that he should be barred of his right to that succession?
Then the rest of the members espoused the dauphin's opinion; and the king owned himself convinced by their reasons.

In all probability the decision of this council was previously settled in private.

After the will was accepted, Louis closeted the duke of Anjou, to whom he said in presence of the marquis des Rois, "Sir, the king of Spain has made you a king.
The grandees demand you; the people wish for you, and I give my consent, remember only, you are a prince of France.