Marie Antoinette many, leading to doubt as to the parentage of the child and to a noticeable decline of the queen's reputation in public opinion. The majority of Marie Antoinette's and Louis XVII's biographers believe that the young prince was the biological son of Louis XVI, including Stefan Zweig and Antonia Fraser, who believe that Fersen and Marie Antoinette were indeed romantically involved. Courtiers at Versailles noted in their diaries that the date of the child's conception in fact corresponded perfectly with a period when the king and the queen had spent much time together, but these details were ignored amid attacks
HMS Marie Antoinette (1793) the French Navy as the 20-gun corvette, "Convention Nationale". In September 1793, at the request of French Royalists, Commodore Ford's squadron attacked Saint-Domingue and Jérémie in the Caribbean. On 23 September 1793, the British captured four merchant vessels at L'Islet, and on 29 September, seven at Flamande Bay. At Môle-Saint-Nicolas, on 23 September, , HMS "Goelan", and had captured the schooner "Convention Nationale", which was under the command of Mons. Anquetin. She was registered on 12 May 1794. Ford gave command of the renamed "Marie Antoinette" to Lieutenant John Perkins "an Officer of Zeal, Vigilance and Activity." In 1794 "Marie