 On page 16 of her book Louis the XVIII, Mary F Sanders notes that Marie-Antoinette herself acknowledged the couples live of seclusion and their own company by commissioning a sketch by Fragonard where a couple sits in front of a fireplace with cotton caps and muffs in their laps.The sketch was meant to mock the Comte and Comtesse And she sent it to them.Indeed, in the private correspondence to the Duke d’Avray Louis Stanislaus in several letters, talks of the fact he loves and misses his recently departed wife.