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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]
Even that bio states: "he contributed a volume of his own to the literature of Psychical Research: 'The Ghosts of Trianon,' a book length study of Moberly and Jourdain's 'An Adventure,' their famous account of a haunting or 'time-shift' said to have taken place in the grounds of the Petit Trianon near the Palace of Versailles in 1901." The ...
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.
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
The incident at UK Hospital unfolded after the Versailles Police Department alerted UK Police that Carroll was on his way to the hospital and he had an active arrest warrant stemming from a drug case.
Robert de Montesquiou was a scion of the French Montesquiou-Fézensac family.His paternal grandfather was Count Anatole de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1788–1878), aide-de-camp to Napoleon and grand officer of the Légion d'honneur; his father was Anatole's third son, Thierry, who married Pauline Duroux, an orphan, in 1841.
Nov. 24—Allegheny County Police have arrested a man they say shot a North Versailles officer early Friday morning. The officer was taken to a local hospital in stable condition. He was treated ...