Activities in 2018

Current Research Programmes

• 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

• ANR-DFG “Architrave”

• Access the archives of our programmes

Applied research

• Archaeological Excavation at Versailles

• Project VERSPERA

• Ethnological enquiry: The Marble Decorative Features of the Palace of Versailles, from Quarry to Building. The Skills of the Marble Masons of the Montagne Noire (Minervois)

• Preventive Conservation in palace-museums – methodologies and applications

Academic courses and training 2017-2018

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

Symposia, study days and conferences in 2018 (in french)

• Study day “Le cardinal Dubois et Saint-Simon” (10 March, château de Versailles)

• Conference “Mécénat royal et diplomatie à la cour de Louis XIV” (10 March, château de Versailles)

• Study day “Horizons courtisans : le retour d’exil” (24 March, château de Versailles)

• Symposium “Les médailles de Louis XIV et leur livre” (24-26 May, château de Versailles)

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