Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette (; ; born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an Archduchess of Austria and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. She became Dauphine of France in May 1770 at age 14 upon her marriage to Louis-Auguste, heir apparent to the French throne. On 10 May 1774, her husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI and she assumed the title Queen of France and Navarre, which she held
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