Maybe. She was widowed pretty young...poor thing !
I don't think there was any 'poor thing' about it. Louis Alexandre, the Prince de Lamballe, was extremely dissipated and almost immediately after his marriage resumed his irregular habits of life and abandoned his wife, who had to take refuge with her father-in-law. His excesses gave him the venereal disease which killed him, and he was generally considered to be no loss, certainly not to his wife, although she virtuously held him in her arms as he died. Although Talleyrand considered him to have been corrupted by the Duc d'Orleans, he clearly did not feel the young man needed much corrupting and said his death 'was not even the object of a regret'.
