would rise again."

Turenne had also been in Paris, and had strongly represented
to Mazarin the necessity for the armies of France and Sweden in
Germany acting together, since while they were acting separately,
and at great distances apart, the Austrians and Bavarians could unite
and crush the one, while the other could offer it no assistance.
It was owing to this that the conquests made by the troop of France
and Weimar had been repeatedly wrested from them. The cardinal
listened to his advice, and determined to bring about a union between
the two armies of the confederation. In the meantime a conference
was going on at Munster between the representatives of the various
conflicting powers, but each put forward such exorbitant demands
that no progress was made.

The Duke of Bavaria, indignant at the small support that Austria
had given him, was playing off France against the latter power.
Mazarin was persuaded that he was only waiting for an opportunity
to desert the Imperialist cause, and therefore ordered Turenne not
to cross the Rhine, as the duke had promised that he would remain
neutral unless the French advanced into Germany, when the feelings
of his subjects might force him to take the field again on the
side of Austria.

Turenne was therefore ordered to besiege Luxembourg. The marshal,
however, had no belief in the Bavarian promises, and on arriving
on the Rhine early in April, and seeing that were he to march with
his army away to Luxembourg the cause of France and Germany would
be lost, he continued to make various excuses for not moving,
until the Duke of Bavaria, having obtained many concessions from