Activities in 2019

Research

• Networks and Sociality at Court

• Court identities and the myth of Versailles in Europe: perception, adherence and rejection (18^th-19^th centuries)

• The representation of history in the collections of the Museum of the Palace of Versailles

• Project VERSPERA

• ANR-DFG “Architrave”

• Creation and online publication of a historic thesaurus of France under the Ancien Régime

Centre participation:

• Scientific collaboration with the Domaine de Chantilly (2019 ...)

• The privileged perfumers, suppliers of the court of Versailles (17^th-18^th centuries) (2018-2021)

• Music in the grands decors of the Palace of Versailles (2017...)

• Inventory of plant species introduced into the national territory: archaeophytes and neophytes of France (2016...)

• The Garde-Meubles of Europe (2014...)

Academic courses and training 2019-2020

These activities are solely for the students of partner institutions, registered through their professor.

• Masters Seminar “The Sorbonne at Versailles” and Seminar for preparatory class: “Versailles: un grand site muséal et patrimonial” from the Faculté des lettres de Sorbonne Université

• “Versailles Research Group” and Thematic Seminar from the École du Louvre

• Masters Seminar “Versailles: une histoire en perspective” from the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

• Thematic day “Versailles” by the Institut national du patrimoine

Symposia, study days and conferences in 2019 (in french)

• Study day “Les égarements du langage dans les Mémoires de Saint-Simon” (16 March, château de Versailles)

• International symposium “Madame de Maintenon (1719-2019)” (21-23 March, château de Versailles)

• International symposium “Artistes et collections royales et princières en France aux XVIe-XVIIIe siècles” (16 May-18 May, Guyancourt and Versailles)

• International symposium “La conférence de la Paix de 1919 et les défis du nouvel ordre international” (5-8 June, Paris and Versailles)

• Study day “Les galeries historiques de Versailles au XIXe siècle: origine, organisation, réception” (9 October, château de Versailles)

• Study day “Conspicuous Privacy: Charity in Versailles under Louis XIV” (14 October, château de Versailles)

• International symposium “L’histoire du Garde-Meuble en Europe (XVIe-XXIe siècles). Entre administration, cérémonial et esthétique” (16-18 October, Paris)

Consult our calls for papers.

Publications

• Publications in preparation

Consult our calls for publication.

Databases

• Feeding data into our online databases

• Development of our new databases

• Feeding data into our digitised corpora