 She claimed that she and Vendôme had merely expressed a wish of frivolity, a joke, harmless and not honestly intended, to Lesage, and that if they believed that she had the wish to murder her husband, they could ask him if he thought so, as he had accompanied her to the trial.She was freed in lack of evidence, but was still exiled to the provinces by the king.She spent some time in Nérac, and was able to return to Paris and the royal court in March 1681.