 This tactic was unsuccessful, as her husband stated that he forbade her from leaving Mitau, and instead she thereafter refused to leave her rooms, where she isolated herself with a bottle of liquor.Gourbillon, in alliance with Michelle de Bonneuil, later managed to have her revenge by convincing the tsar to expel Louis from Russia in January 1801.Marie Joséphine did participate in the welcoming of Marie Thérèse and the following wedding, but the relationship with her and Louis did not improve and it was noticed that she refused to speak with him.