Alexandre Gonsse de Rougeville presents a carnation to Marie Antoinette in front of her warder Jean-Baptiste Michonis. The carnation held a note with a plot to free her from the Conciergerie gaol. Stipple copperplate engraving by Noel after an illustration by Sebastien Leroy from Marie Antoinette, Archiduchesse d'Autriche, Reine de France, chez le Fuel, Paris, 1815.

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