Dingle and Marie Antoinette. In the early period of the French Revolution, James Louis Rice, an Irish officer in the Habsburg Imperial Service, organised an escape for Queen Marie Antoinette from Paris to this house, his family home in Dingle.  The queen, however, refused to leave Louis XVI and their children. [full inscription unknown]

A local news publication reporting (June 30 2010) on the unveiling, other local plaques and the historical background to this little-documented story, said:"Three Kerrymen, a Kerry woman and her Cork-born husband intended to rescue Marie Antoinette from Revolutionary Paris in 1791-'92 with the view of bringing Marie-Antoinette to Nantes. From there, she would have been transferred to Dingle, County Kerry in a wine-merchant's ship. Upon arriving in Dingle, Marie Antoinette was to seek refuge in a suite of rooms, prepared for her in Rice House, a building still standing today..."http://www.dinglenews.com/news.asp?id=3750