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 Scheldt River for naval passage, Marie Antoinette succeeded in obliging Vergennes to pay a huge financial compensation to Austria. Finally, the queen was able to obtain her brother's support against Great Britain in the American Revolution and she neutralized French hostility to his alliance with Russia. In 1782, after the governess of the "Enfants de France", the princesse de Guéméné, went bankrupt and resigned, Marie Antoinette appointed her favourite, the duchesse de Polignac, to the position. This decision met with disapproval from the court as the duchess was considered to be of too modest a birth to occupy such an