At a subsequent interview at Talcy[296] (28th June, 1562), Condé, yielding to the persuasions of Montluc, Bishop of Valence, offered to show his good faith by leaving the country, provided the Guises would do the same; and a meeting was fixed for the next day at which the conditions of this singular agreement were to be arranged. La Noue tells us how “the prince returned to his camp laughing (but between his teeth) with the chief of his gentlemen who had heard all his talk; some scratching their heads where they itched not, others shaking them; some were pensive; and the younger sort gibed at one another, each one devising with what occupation he should be forced to get his living in a foreign land.” With similar lightness of heart, but not with equal chivalry, the gentlemen of France forsook their country in 1789, trusting to return in a few weeks to a land which most of them never saw again. Condé’s officers refused to follow him. Coligny supposed the queen-mother meant no harm, but thought that “those who had weapons in their hands did circumvent her to the end to betray them.” Andelot said to the prince: “If you forsake us now, it will be said that you do it for fear. The best way of coming to an agreement is to lead us within sight of the enemy. We can never be perfect friends, before we have skirmished a little together.” The Lord of Boucarde, one of the bravest gentlemen in the realm, “whose head was fraught with fire and lead,” declared: “I would be loth to walk up and down a foreign land with a tooth-pick in my mouth, and in the mean time see some flattering neighbor be the master of my house, and fatten himself with my revenues.” These opinions being generally approved of, Condé gave way, and “they all shook hands in confirmation thereof.” Beza, who was present at this council, afterward besought the prince “not to give over the good work he had begun which God, whose honor it concerned, would bring to perfection.” Thus the conference came to nothing; the queen-mother and Condé separated, “each very sorry that they had no better success.”