text:  He refused rank in the French army coupled with the condition of leaving the service of the Republic; and it was only on the French alliance in 1788 that he returned to Paris to be received with feigned displeasure by the King and even put under arrest by the minister but to be welcomed by the praises of the true sovereign the Queen feted by the court the sovereign of that sovereign and huzzaed by the mob of Paris already the sovereign of them all; from his military prison he emerged colonel of the King's regiment of dragoons