 Her husband loved her and was tolerant of her love affairs, and refused to follow the wish of his family and have her incarcerated in a convent for adultery.On one occasion, when she herself took refuge in a convent out of fear for his family after a particularly public love affair, her husband himself asked her to leave the convent and return to him.She was socially and politically compromised in the notorious "Affaire des Poisons", allegedly for planning to poison her husband in order to marry her nephew Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme.