 D’Avray was on his death bed, so the letters were not meant for public effect but are regarded by most historians as true to his feelings.That said Louis Stanislaus was reputed to have a romantic relationship with his favorite courtier, the Duke d'Avaray, Marie Joséphine was reputed to have a romantic relationship with her favorite lady-in-waiting Marguerite de Gourbillon.She preferred to reside in her private retreat villa, the "Pavillon Madame" in Montreuil, on which she spent lavishly and constructed a fashionable model village with a pavilion of music, and a model village with twelve houses, dovecotes and windmills, a dairy made of marble with silver vessels, as well as allegorical temples consecrated to love and friendship, a hermitage and a belvedere.