In 1802 she married the comte Baschi du Cayla (died 1851), with whom she had two children, Ugolin and Ugoline before being separated after prolonged litigation, which brought her to the attention of Louis XVIII, to whom she personally appealed for protection from her husband. She managed to retain the confidence, however, of her mother-in-law, a lady-in-waiting in the household of the comtesse de Provence, who now became titular queen of France. At the court of the
restored Bourbons, Madame de Cayla was also the protégée of the vicomte
Sosthènes I de La Rochefoucauld and from about 1817, at first very discreetly, became the major avenue through which the
Ultras were able to influence the aged and emotionally needy Louis XVIII, who lavished favours upon Madame de Cayla, though she was unlikely ever to have been his mistress. In 1821 the king had the
Château de Saint-Ouen, north of Paris, razed and rebuilt by the architect
Jacques-Marie Huvé; the first stones were laid 2 May 1821, in the presence of the king and the comtesse. The old château had been the site of the signing of papers that restored the brother of
Louis XVI to the throne of France. It was decorated and furnished out of Louis XVIII's pocket, without a trace in the official budget of the
Maison du Roi, and completed by the end of 1822, when Mme de Cayla officially "purchased" it from the architect, 29 October 1822. The King's house-warming gift was a dessert service of
Sèvres porcelain painted with views of the new château. She was also the avenue through which office-seekers could find places. After the death of her royal patron in 1824 she turned her attention to agriculture, raising a new breed of sheep named in her honour, from a long-haired Nubian ram that had been presented to her by
Muhammad Ali, viceroy of Egypt. She supported the pile carpet manufactory of
Savonnerie in its last independent days before it was absorbed by the
Gobelins in 1826. ==Later life==