Her husband, Charles de Choiseul, Duke of Praslin was believed guilty for her death and committed suicide while awaiting trial days later on August 24, 1847.

[2] This was not such an issue since his own father, Charles Laure Hugues Théobald, duc de Choiseul-Praslin, had left him a sizeable fortune amounting to well over nine million francs.

The governess had been desperate for a letter of recommendation from the duchesse which, declaring herself innocent of the charge of having an affair with the duc and believing herself to have dedicated the past six years of her life to caring for the Praslin children, she was entitled to and without which she would find it impossible to get another post.

The duchesse possibly seeing a chance to gain her revenge on the governess she sorely detested is believed to have refused to write the recommendation.

This caused further scandal because her husband, being a duc, was protected from being sentenced and jailed until other peers met and came to an agreement on the proceedings.

[2] The governess, Henriette Deluzy, was arrested because officials believed she could have been involved in the plot with the duc to kill the duchesse.

She was cleared of any wrongdoing, left France, and emigrated to the United States where she married and hosted an artistic and intellectual salon.

Writer Rachel Field, who claimed Henriette Deluzy was her great-aunt, wrote a novel about the events titled All This, and Heaven Too, which was released in 1938.