She then went to Biarritz and, when the Court moved to St. Cloud, she lived in a little house that adjoined the Private Park and there was a hidden door in the wall that the Emperor used.
The Empress, having discovered that her husband’s liaison was far from casual, began to get annoyed and she was not the only person.
The Courtiers and Statesmen were certain that the Emperor’s secretary, Mocquard, used Marguerite as a means of influencing the Emperor.
In October 1864 the Emperor was brought home in a state of collapse from Marguerite’s house in the Rue de Vignes and the Empress then decided that the liaison must end.
France could no longer afford to have a Ruler who endangered his health with a Grande Cocotte.
The Empress visited Marguerite, told her that she was killing the Emperor
