Simultaneously with Liselotte's domestic problems, French nobles and courtiers had formed a secret homosexual 'brotherhood' which required those who joined her to "swear an oath to renounce all women"; the members are said to have carried a cross with a relief on which a man "kicks a woman into the dust" (in an unholy allusion to the Archangel Michael). The Duke of Orléans didn't belong to this brotherhood, but many of his favorites were. Indeed, some courtiers in Paris behaved scandalously and several incidents were reported in which women were sadistically tortured, and also was reported that a poor waffle seller was raped, castrated and killed by courtiers. When it became known that the 'brotherhood' also included the Prince of la Roche-sur-Yon and the Comte of Vermandois (one of the King's legitimate sons with Louise de La Vallière), in June 1682 became a wave of exiles. Louis XIV punished his own son very severely and sent him to war, where he died shortly afterwards at the age of 16. Liselotte was directly affected by this incident, since the Count of Vermandois was her ward after his mother leave the court to become a nun; she recalled: "The Comte de Vermandois was very good-natured. The poor person loved me as if I were his birth mother. ... He told me his whole story. He had been horribly seduced." One of his 'seducers' is said to have been the Chevalier de Lorraine —her husband's lover and her avowed enemy.