Marie Antoinette's popularity (already hanging tenuously in the stability) was ruined. Marie Antoinette was annoyed. When Marie Antoinette and her family were imprisoned at the Tuileries during the first thrust of the French Revolution, Fersen was instrumental in plotting their escape. He borrowed giant sums of money and even mortgaged his home to help them flee, and he never did pay it again in full -- nor did the escape work.