Marie Antoinette French territories on European soil. That summer, the situation was compounded by multiple defeats of the French armies by the Austrians, in part because Marie Antoinette passed on military secrets to them. In addition, at the insistence of his wife, Louis XVI vetoed several measures that would have further restricted his power, earning the royal couple the nicknames "Monsieur Veto" and "Madame Veto", nicknames then prominently featured in different contexts, including La Carmagnole. Barnave remained the most important advisor and supporter of the queen, who was willing to work with him as long as he met her demands, which he
HMS Marie Antoinette (1793) 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 Royal Navy took her into service under her original name, "Marie Antoinette". She took part in operations around Saint-Domingue until her crew mutinied in 1797 and carried her into a French port. Her subsequent fate is unknown. "Marie Antoinette" was the merchant schooner "Marie Antoinette". In 1793, she was requisitioned at Saint-Domingue and commissioned in