 With her protector, the comte van Gobbelschroy, interior minister to William I, she set up home in the rural property (later known as the château Malou) he had acquired at Woluwe-Saint-Lambert near Brussels.Van Gobbelschroy committed suicide in 1850, having used up his fortune setting up the first candle factories in France and Belgium.Some sources state that he and Lesueur married, though the comte's death certificate states he was unmarried.