Different wives for Count's Provence and Artois?

The two younger brothers of Louis XVI, The count's of Provence and Artois married two Savoyard princess sisters Marie Josephine and Marie Therese. If for whatever reason this double marriage did not take place who could the two brothers have married instead?
 
Let's assume that the French royal family still wants these boys to marry as soon as possible. (They were both married at the age of 16.) There aren't that many catholic princesses that would fit. Most of them are already married, too old or too young. The only ones that I can think of are:

Maria Anna of Palatine Zweibrücken (1753-1824)

Maria Amalia of Saxony (1757-1831)
 
Artois was engaged to the prince de Condé's daughter, later Abbess of Remiremont. Or, with the right POD might even marry Mademoiselle de Penthièvre.

As to Provence, a Saxon princess is most likely. Zweibrücken was rather low on the totem pole - the children of Friedrich Michael were only heirs presumptive to an heir presumptive (which is why Maria Theresia refused to countenance a match between her daughter and Karl II of Zweibrücken). Friedrich Michael had an older brother, Christian IV, who had married morganatically, but if his wife died, he might marry dynastically. Christian IV was heir presumptive to Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria - again someone whose wife might die and he might remarry and have issue.

A dark horse might be a princess of Württemberg (OTL's Maria Feodorovna) OTL Karl II Alexander's sister had been considered for the dauphin after his first wife died, but Württemberg was unable to come up with the dowry. Marriage to the king's brother might not be so expensive. Likewise, if the margrave of Baden has a daughter kicking around, she's got connections at Versailles (the duc d'Orléans and family) who could weight the scales in her favour (but I'd put any German option besides Saxony in the outside track)
 
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