 Léopoldine had many suitors for marriage including her future husband, Charles Vacquerie, whom she met while on holiday in 1839.She married at Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis on 15 February 1843, but they both drowned together only a few months later, when their boat capsized on the Seine in Villequier on 4 September 1843.She was 19 years old and pregnant and she died when her wet, heavy skirts pulled her down, and her husband died trying to save her.