Activities of the year

Research

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)

Scientific projects ans applied research

• Letters de Marie-Antoinette (LMA)

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

• Historic repository of France under the Ancien Régime

• Project VERSPERA

Academic courses and training 2024-2025

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

• Masters seminar “The Sorbonne at Versailles” and Preparatory class seminar for the heritage competition “Versailles: a great museum and heritage site” and Summer school of the doctoral school 433 “Concepts et Langages” from the Faculté des lettres de Sorbonne Université

• “Versailles Research Group” and Thematic Seminar “Versailles: museographic and cultural choices for a major heritage site”, seminar “Audencia” (in French), seminar “Decorative Arts Seminar (Bard Graduate Center)” (in French) and seminar “Summer School” (in French) from the École du Louvre

• Master’s seminars “Versailles: a history in perspective” (DYPAC laboratory) and “Versailles and the 19^th century” (CHCSC laboratory) from the université of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

• University diploma “Expertise of works of art” from Panthéon-Assas université

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 2025 (in french)

• Study day “Saint-Simon et le temps” (22 March, château de Versailles)

• Conference “Les spectacles à Rome (1644-1740). Une plongée dans les archives des familles aristocratiques” by Anne-Madeleine Goulet (19 June, château de Versailles)

• International symposium “Quatre mariages et un enterrement : fêtes et célébrations franco-polonaises (1645-1725)” (25-26 September, château de Versailles; 27 September, Paris, Bibliothèque polonaise)

Consult our calls for papers.

Publications

• Our publications in preparation

• Our calls for publication

• List of upcoming publications that we support

Databases

• Feeding data into our online databases

• Development of our new databases

• Feeding data into our digitised corpora