Marie Antoinette May 1774, the Dauphin ascended the throne as King Louis XVI of France and Navarre with Marie Antoinette as his Queen. At the outset, the new queen had limited political influence with her husband, who, with the support of his two most important ministers, Chief Minister Maurepas and Foreign Minister Vergennes, blocked several of her candidates from assuming important positions, including Choiseul. The queen did play a decisive role in the disgrace and exile of the most powerful of Louis XV's ministers, the Duke of Aiguillon. On 24 May 1774, two weeks after the death of Louis XV, the king
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