Liselotte and Philippe's marriage was problematic for both sides, as he was homosexual and lived it out quite openly. He led a largely independent life, together with and influenced by his main and long-time lover, the Chevalier de Lorraine; he also had other favorites and numerous smaller affairs with younger men, which the Chevalier himself and one of his friends, Antoine Morel de Volonne (whom Monsieur made Liselotte's "Hofmarschall" during 1673–1683) procured to him. Morel had a very bad reputation even by the standards of the time: "He stole, he lied, he swore, was atheist and sodomite and sold boys like horses."