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Moberly and Jourdain recounted that they had decided to visit the Palace of Versailles as part of several trips around Paris, detailing how, on 10 August 1901, they travelled by train to Versailles. They remembered not thinking much of the palace after touring it, [6] so they said they decided to walk through the gardens to the Petit Trianon. [10]
Jourdain was chiefly famous for claiming that she and Moberly had slipped back in time to the period of the French Revolution while on a trip to Versailles, known as the Moberly–Jourdain incident. [4] Their book was published pseudonymously; their identity was not revealed until the mid-1920s, after Jourdain's death. [7]
Ghosts of Versailles may refer to The Ghosts of Versailles, a 1983 opera by John Corigliano and William M. Hoffman; Moberly–Jourdain incident or Ghosts of Versailles, a 1901 claim of time travel and hauntings Miss Morison's Ghosts, a 1981 British supernatural television drama based on the Moberly-Joudain incident
It is based on a book by two Oxford academics, Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain who claimed that in 1901, on a day trip to Versailles, they travelled back in time to the 18th century court of Louis XVI of France, in an event known as the Moberly–Jourdain incident.
4 April – first issue of L'Assiette au beurre, satirical magazine created by Samuel-Sigismond Schwarz; 10 August – Moberly-Jourdain incident. 19 October – Alberto Santos-Dumont manages to reach the distance between Saint-Cloud and the Eiffel Tower in an airship in less than 30 minutes and wins the Deutsch prize of 100,000 gold francs
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The "Moberly–Jourdain incident" gave rise to one of the more famous "ghost stories" of the early 20th century, which Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain would recount a decade later in their bestselling book An Adventure. Both of them were administrators at St Hugh's College, a women's college associated with the University of Oxford.