The mission of the Scientific Committee of the Centre de recherche du château de Versailles is to assist the governing board in defining the general scientific directions to be taken by the group. It is consulted and gives its opinion on the general programme of the group’s activities, examines the dossiers submitted for research projects presented directly by the researchers or teams of researchers, and assesses them from a scientific point of view.
The scientific committee consists of ex-officio members and qualified persons chosen for their competence in the areas of the group’s activities, and with at least a third coming from abroad. Its members are appointed for three years.
It meets when convened by its president as often as required by its mission, and at least once a year in a plenary session.
Lucien BÉLY, Member of the Institut de France, Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the Faculté des Lettres Sorbonne Université, President of the Scientific Committee of the GIP – Centre de recherche du château de Versailles
Élisabeth CAUDE, Director of the Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau, of the Musées napoléonien et africain de l’Île d’Aix and of the Musée de la maison Bonaparte in Ajaccio
Annaïg CHATAIN, Director of the Studies at the École du Louvre
Marianne COJANNOT-LE BLANC, Professor of Modern Art History at the Université Paris Nanterre
Anne CONCHON, Professor of Modern History at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Natacha COQUERY, Professor of Modern History at the Université Lumière – Lyon 2, Honorary Member of the Institut universitaire de France
Frédéric DASSAS, Curator in chief at the Department of Objects of Art of the Musée du Louvre
Delphine DENIS, Professor of French Literature at the Faculté des Lettres Sorbonne Université
Sylvène EDOUARD, Professor of Modern History at the Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3
Marcello FANTONI, European Director, Kent State University (United States)
Michel FIGEAC, Professor of Modern History at the Université Bordeaux Montaigne
Maciej FORYCKI, Professor of Modern History at the Université Adam-Mickiewicz of Poznań (Poland)
Anne-Madeleine GOULET, Research director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Christine GOUZI, Professor of Modern Art History at the Université Paris-Sorbonne
Chantal GRELL, Former Professor of Modern History at the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Vincent HAEGELÉ, Director of the network of libraries at the Ville de Versailles
Éric HASSLER, Lecturer in Modern History at the Université de Strasbourg
Mark HENGERER, Professor in Modern History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich (Germany)
Étienne JOLLET, Professor of Art History at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Pauline LEMAIGRE-GAFFIER, Lecturer in Modern History at the Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Nicolas LE ROUX, Professor of Modern History at the Faculté des Lettres Sorbonne Université
Yann LIGNEREUX, Professor of Modern History at the Université de Nantes
Philip MANSEL, Co-founder of the Society for Court Studies, Editor of The Court Historian (1996-2006), Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research (London)
Andrea MERLOTTI, Director of the Centro studi della Reggia di Venaria (Italy)
François PERNOT, Professor of Modern History at CY Cergy Paris Université
Isabelle POUTRIN, Professor of Modern History at the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Gérard SABATIER, Former Professor of Modern History at the Université Pierre Mendès-France – Grenoble II
Laurent SALOMÉ, Director of the Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
Marie-Karine SCHAUB, Habilitated Lecturer in Modern History at the Université Paris-Est Créteil
Catriona SETH, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at Oxford University (United Kingdom)
Charles-Eloi VIAL, Curator at the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Hendrik ZIEGLER, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Marburg (Germany)