Cultural depictions of Marie Antoinette "Marie Antoinette" for their prog rock band Curved Air. Wayne Shorter wrote a jazz tune of the same name; it was recorded by Freddie Hubbard. Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay wrote a musical play called "Marie Antoinette" about the parallel lives of Antoinette and a fictional Margrid Arnaud. The play was written in English but premiered in Tokyo. The portrait of Marie Antoinette entitled "Marie Antoinette à la Rose" features as the front cover of the US alternative rock group Hole's 2010 album "Nobody's Daughter". The Charlie Sexton song "Impressed" references Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Madonna dressed as Marie
Marie Antoinette contested in the libelles. In the middle of the queen's pregnancy two events occurred which had profound impact on her later life: the return of her friend, the Swedish diplomat Count Axel von Fersen to Versailles for two years, and her brother's claim to the throne of Bavaria, contested by the Habsburg monarchy and Prussia. Marie Antoinette pleaded with her husband for the French to intercede on behalf of Austria. The Peace of Teschen, signed on 13 May 1779, ended the brief conflict, with the queen imposing French mediation at her mother's insistence and Austria's gaining a territory of at