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 2021-2022

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

• Doctoral seminar “Représenter l’histoire au musée” organised by the École du Louvre, the Musée du Louvre (Centre Dominique Vivant Denon with the assistance of the Service de l’histoire du Louvre) and the Centre de recherche du château de Versailles (in French)

• Masters seminar “La Sorbonne à 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 “Versailles” from the École du Louvre

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

• Research seminar “Table music. Music with meals in France and in Europe in modern times: rituals, repertoires, practices” organised by the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, the Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance de Tours and the Centre de recherche du château de Versailles

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)

• International symposium “De Heidelberg à Versailles. Élisabeth-Charlotte du Palatinat, “Madame Palatine” (1652-1722-2022)” (November 7-8, Heidelberg; November 9-10, Versailles) - See call for papers (in french)

• International symposium “Les intérieurs historiques et le numérique – possibilités et limites des reconstructions virtuelles pour la recherche” (November 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