Carnation Plot

The Carnation Plot, was one of the many plans 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.

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.

"[3]Rougeville also wrote that when he visited the Queen at Conciergerie, she was thin, weak and could barely walk.

Afterwards, it is claimed that the Queen used a pin to pierce a message, which read;"I am watched; I neither talk nor write; I trust in you; I shall come"[7] Marie Antoinette gave the note to a gendarme, Jean Gilbert.

Marie Antoinette never told the examiners anything,[7] but they increased surveillance and the Queen was executed on 16 October 1793.