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) 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