Mademoiselle d’Armagnac in dressing gown.
Antoine Touvain (engraver), 1695. Etching, 30 x 20 cm. Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie, RESERVE BOITE PET FOL-ZF-48. Public domain.
The Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, was a member of the European Research Group (ERG): “Cultures of the Court and Cultures of the Body: Practices, Norms and Representations in European Courts, 12-18th Centuries” (C3B), from 2008 to 2011.
The ERG supports the research programme “Court Cultures and Body Cultures: Practices, Norms and Representations in European Courts prior to the French Revolution”
2011: two international conferences and one symposium
- Children and their Bodies at Court (London, 3-4 March 2011).

- Programme
- Court Ceremonial in the Medieval and Modern eras: theoretical texts and practice (Versailles, autumn 2011).
2010: two seminars and two symposia
- Seminars on the theme The Body as Part of the Performance took place throughout 2010 at the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.