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. 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.