Marie Joséphine of Savoy future king of Sardinia) was married to her sister-in-law Princess Clotilde of France in 1775. Her eldest brother-in-law, Dauphin Louis Auguste (the future Louis XVI of France), had married Marie Antoinette one year earlier. Marie Joséphine was by view of rank and connections deemed very suitable for a marriage to a French prince, and she had been regarded as a suitable bride of the Dauphin prior to his marriage in 1770. The marriage was supported by Madame du Barry, who wished to create an ally within the royal family and who the king allowed to form the household of the
HMS Marie Antoinette (1793) and gibbeted him. The subsequent fate of "Marie Antoinette" and that of most of the crew is unknown. The mutiny itself is analogous to the mutiny in September of the same year by the crew of . "Hermione"'s crew also murdered their captain and took their ship into an enemy port, La Guaira in Venezuela. HMS Marie Antoinette (1793) HMS "Marie Antoinette was a 10-gun two-masted sloop. She was built in France and was originally called Marie Antoinette. During the French Revolution, she was rerequisitoned and renamed Convention Nationale". A British squadron under Commodore Ford captured her in 1793. The