Research Programmes

The programmes undertaken as part of this research are multidisciplinary. They are always subject to approval by the Centre’s Scientific Committee, and are usually spread out over three years. The research team meets at least twice a year, producing a report signed by the project leader and validated by the Scientific Committee. These programmes are either the result of a project shared between several institutions, or are the subject of a call for proposals instigated by the Research Centre and endorsed by its Scientific Committee.

Current Research Programmes:

• Networks and sociability at the court of France, 17^th-18^th century

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

• Châteaux and museums in Europe: an artistic heritage in the face of war (19^th-20^th century)

Research Programmes completed:

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

• ANR-DFG “Architrave”

• Court Etiquette: normative texts and customs

• Foreigners at the Bourbon Court of France (1594-1789). Strategies, Transfers, Suspicion

• Plants in the Major Gardens of Europe in the Modern Era

• Dressing at Court: Typology, Uses and Economics

• Curia: The Royal Households of the French Court in the 17^th and 18^th Centuries

• Science and Power: Princes and Scholars in the European Courts of the 17^th and 18^th centuries

• Power and History in Europe from the 15^th to the 18^th century: Texts, Images and Political Legitimation

• Court Cultures and Body Cultures: Practices, Norms and Representations in European Courts prior to the French Revolution

• Dynasties, Nations, Europe, Princes’ Funerals and the Collective Memory from the 16^th to the 18^th century

• A Study to recreate the Great Entertainments produced at Versailles under Louis XIV

• The Great Galleries of European Palaces in the 17^th and 18^th centuries: Typology, History, Decor and Use

• The Court of Versailles in Southern France (1682-1789)