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Carnation Plot

The Carnation Plot, was one of the many plots that failed to free the royal family of France from the Revolution. Also known as the "le complot de l'oeillet", it was a plan to free Marie Antoinette, former Queen of France, in August 1793. Conspired by Alexandre Gonsse de Rougeville, who was loyal to Louis XVI and was with Louis XVI when a crowd entered the Tuileries Palace, and was also present at the insurrection at the Tuileries Palace (10th of August). However, it did not succeed. After the event at the Tuileries Palace, Rougeville met the family's jail administrator, Jean-Baptiste Michonis. Michonis was originally a revolutionary, but supposedly after he talked and spoke to Rougeville, he too wanted to free the Queen. They both agreed that Rougeville along with Michonis would go to Conciergerie, where the Queen is located. Rougeville wrote that; "The room was small, damp, and ill-smelling...there were three beds: one for the Queen, the other, by the side of hers, for the woman who served her; the third, for the two gendarmes, who never left the room on any occasion or under any circumstances whatsoever." Rougeville also wrote that when he visited the Queen at Conciergerie, she was thin, weak and could barely walk. Before visiting the Queen, Rougeville had pinned two carnations onto his lapel, which resulted in the scheme being called the Carnation Plot.…

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The Carnation Plot, was one of the many plots that failed to free the royal family of France from the Revolution. Also known as the "le complot de l'oeillet", it was a plan to free Marie Antoinette, former Queen of France, in August 1793. Conspired by Alexandre Gonsse de Rougeville, who was loyal to Louis XVI and was with Louis XVI when a crowd entered the Tuileries Palace, and was also present at the insurrection at the Tuileries Palace (10th of August). However, it did not succeed. After the event at the Tuileries Palace, Rougeville met the family's jail administrator, Jean-Baptiste Michonis. Michonis was originally a revolutionary, but supposedly after he talked and spoke to Rougeville, he too wanted to free the Queen. They both agreed that Rougeville along with Michonis would go to Conciergerie, where the Queen is located. Rougeville wrote that; "The room was small, damp, and ill-smelling...there were three beds: one for the Queen, the other, by the side of hers, for the woman who served her; the third, for the two gendarmes, who never left the room on any occasion or under any circumstances whatsoever." Rougeville also wrote that when he visited the Queen at Conciergerie, she was thin, weak and could barely walk. Before visiting the Queen, Rougeville had pinned two carnations onto his lapel, which resulted in the scheme being called the Carnation Plot.…

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  1. date of death: 1814 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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