Victoire Louise Marie Thérèse war zusammen mit ihrer älteren Schwester Marie Adelaide (1732-1800) am 19. Februar 1791 um 22 Uhr nach Rom geflohen. "In Rome they remained until the French army under General Bonaparte invaded the Royal States; they then fled to Naples, from whence, however, they were driven away by the Republican forces in 1798. From Naples they crossed over to Manfredonia, where they were to embark for Trieste, and suffered great hardships during the journey, being overtaken by a heavy snowstorm. On reaching the coast, they could not find the frigate on which they were to have sailed, and after appealing for aid to Nelson and to the admirals in command of the Prussian and Portuguese fleets, their continued their flight before they could receive an answer, so frightened were they of falling into the hands of the French. At length they embarked on board a small craft called a trabaccolo, in which sixty persons were huddled together. Mesdames had a small cabin with two beds, the Lady's-maids sleeping on the floor. They remained in this floating prison for thirty-one days without undressing, living on salt-fish, Albanian bread, and hard biscuit. In addition to this, the sailors were continually threatening to abandon them unless their salaries were raised. At last they got on board a Russian frigate, which conveyed them to Corfou, the weather being so bad that they took a fortnight, instead of thirty-six hours, to reach their destination. After reposing themselves for a few weeks, Mesdames continued their journey on board a Portuguese ship, escorted by two Russian frigates, and reached Trieste on the 19th May, 1799, after wandering about for five months, and enduring fatigues and privations they were in no way fitted to support. In fact Madame Victoire died from exhaustion eighteen days after she landed, and Madame Adélaide followed her to the grave six months later. They were both buried in the Cathedral of Trieste; but in 1817, when Louis XVIII. [ihr Neffe] was king, he had their remains removed to France, and the two unfortunate sisters now repose in the same tomb at St. Denis." (in: D. Bingham: The Marriages of the Bourbons, Volume II, id., pp. 451-452).