Activities in 2022

Research

Research Programmes

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

• 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

Scientific projects ans applied research

• Doctoral Award “Marie-Antoinette: A queen of letters”

• Experimental Virtual Archaeological-Acoustics — Versailles

• Project IMMERSAILLES, socio-spatial study of the accommodation at the Palace of Versailles during the Ancien Regime

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

• Project VERSPERA

Academic courses and training 2022-2023

• Research seminar “Versailles : art et histoire” for students of the Centre de recherche’s partners (in French)

• Masters seminar “La Sorbonne à Versailles” and Preparatory class seminar for the heritage competition: “Versailles: un grand site muséal et patrimonial” from the Faculté des lettres de Sorbonne Université

• “Versailles Research Group” and Thematic Seminar “Versailles: choix muséographiques et culturels pour un grand site patrimonial” from the École du Louvre

• Master’s seminars at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines “Versailles: une histoire en perspective” (DYPAC laboratory) and “Versailles and the 19^th century” (CHSCS laboratory)

In addition to these educational and training activities organised on a regular basis by the Centre de recherche, a number of whole-day or part-day training sessions are being hosted at the request of our partners.

Symposia, study days and conferences in 2022 (in french)

• International symposium “Le mythe de Versailles et l’Europe des cours, XVII^e-XX^e siècles” (January 27-29, château de Versailles)

• Study day “Rire avec Saint-Simon et quelques autres de ses contemporains” (March 12, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles)

• International symposium “Quelle souveraineté pour la nation (1789-1790) ?” (June 20-21, château de Versailles)

• Workshop “Plafond-3D : lancement du projet” (June 29-30, château de Versailles)

• International symposium “De Heidelberg à Versailles. Élisabeth-Charlotte du Palatinat, “Madame Palatine” (1652-1722-2022)” (November 7-8, Heidelberg; November 9-10, château de Versailles)

• International symposium “Les intérieurs historiques et le numérique – possibilités et limites des reconstructions virtuelles pour la recherche” (November 16-17, Paris, Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art ; November 18, 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