was insufficient to attack the Imperialists. Mazarin thereupon
sent orders to Enghien to set out at once for Germany. As soon as
he reached the Rhine and his army prepared to cross, Enghien, who
had been appointed generalissimo, rode forward with Marshal de
Gramont, who was in command of the army under him, to the camp of
Turenne. The meeting between Enghien and Turenne was most cordial.
Enghien had always felt the warmest admiration for the talents
of the older marshal, had been most intimate with him whenever he
was at court, and regarded him as his master in the art of war.
Turenne was free from the vice of jealousy; and as the armies of
France were almost always placed under the supreme if sometimes
nominal command of princes of the blood, it seemed nothing but
natural to him that Enghien should receive supreme authority.

The characters of the two men were in complete contrast with each
other -- the one was ardent, passionate, prompt in action and
swift in execution; the other, though equally brave, was prudent
and careful, anxious above all things to accomplish his object
with the smallest possible loss of men, while Enghien risked the
lives of his soldiers as recklessly as his own. They always acted
together in the most perfect harmony, and their friendship remained
unimpaired even when in subsequent days they stood in arms against
each other. At the council Turenne was in favour of making a
circuit and taking up their post in the valley of St. Pierre, by
which they would intercept the Bavarians' communications and force
them by famine to issue out from their strong lines and fight in
the open, and urged that to attack a position so strongly fortified
would entail terrible loss, even if successful.

Marshal de Gramont, and d'Erlac, governor of Breisach, were of the