On 16 August 1871, La Païva obtained an annulment of her marriage to Albino Francisco de Araújo de Païva, and two months later, on 28 October, Thérèse Lachmann (the name she used on the marriage certificate) wed Guido Georg Friedrich Erdmann Heinrich Adalbert, Count Henckel von Donnersmarck, in the Lutheran Church in Paris.Charles A. Dolph, The Real 'Lady of the Camellias' and Other Women of Quality (Frank-Maurice, 1927), page 88 (The groom's gift to the bride was a triple-strand diamond necklace formerly owned by the deposed French empress, Eugénie.) As for La Païva's former husband, he committed suicide the following year, after his fortune was depleted by his ex-wife's avarice, gambling debts, and investments gone sour.Frédéric Loliée and Bryan O'Donnell, The Gilded Beauties of the Second Empire (Brentano's, 1910), page 117-122
