In October 1806, after the Battle of Jena, French soldiers entered their house in Weimar, and Christiane is credited with defending Goethe. She managed Goethe's household and estate, handling practical affairs while he wrote and traveled. A few days later, on 19 October 1806, Goethe and Vulpius were finally married, in the sacristy of the Jakobskirche. The Weimar court sculptor Carl Gottlieb Weisser made a bust of Vulpius during 1811–1812; a bronze copy was placed in the garden pavilion of Bad Lauchstädt, designed specially to display it. Christiane Vulpius, a young flower-maker from Weimar, became the companion and later the wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, with whom she had a son, August. Christiane moved into Goethe's household in 1788, and they lived together openly without marrying. A few days later, on October 19, 1806, the couple married. Weimar society long treated her with disdain, but Goethe valued her greatly. Christiane died in Weimar on June 6, 1816, after a painful illness. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.