Frotté made up his mind. He would go and rejoin his compatriots; he would come to France itself and fight the Revolution there. To do this, a short stay in England was indispensable. He could obtain resources there, and he had none at the moment. Who could say that he might not even be entrusted with an official command? At any rate, that was how, in the early months of 1794, the Chevalier de Couterne came to disembark at London like the rest. We shall not be surprised, knowing as we do his relations with Lady Atkyns, and _her_ relations with Peltier and d’Auerweck, to find Frotté very quickly made free of that little circle of intimates. His admiration for his fair friend of Lille was far from having decreased; and he now listened to the details, by her own lips, of her repeated offers for, and her unalterable devotion to, the Royal family. He even came, under her influence, to share the hopes which she, brave lady! still cherished. FOOTNOTES: [52] Bazouges-du-Desert, Ile-et-Vilaine, _arrondissement_ of Fougères, district of Louvigné-du-Désert. [53] Here is the baptismal certificate of Yves Cormier:-- “Yves-Jean-François-Marie, son of M. Yves-Gilles and Dame Marie-Anne-Françoise Egasse (_alias_ Egace), born yesterday, baptized this day, December 8, 1740, by me the Rector undersigned; and held to the Holy Baptismal Font by M. Jean-François Cormier, Prior-Rector of Bassouge-du-Desert, and by Dame Marie-Anne Lardoul; the father being present, and others undersigned:-- Marie-Anne Lardoul. Perrine Cormier. De Saint Cristan. Mangourit. Cormier, Prior-Rector of la Baionges. Françoise Lecomte--Imbault. Cormier. P. F. d’Oultremer, Rector.” _Municipal Archives of Rennes_, series G.G., _Parish of Saint-Sauveur, Register of Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials for 1740_. We owe the greater part of our information relative to the sojourn of Cormier at Rennes to the kindness of our lamented _confrère_, M. Parfouru, departmental archivist. [54] Barthélemy Pocquet, _Le pouvoir absolu et l’esprit provincial: Le Duc d’Aiguillon et La Chalotais_, Paris, 1900-1901, 3 vols. 8vo. [55] It was entitled, _Tableau des assemblées secrètes et fréquentes des Jesuites et leurs affilés a Rennes_. [56] _Archives of Maitre Motel, notary, of Paris._