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The Moberly–Jourdain incident (also the Ghosts of Petit Trianon or Versailles, French: les fantômes du Trianon / les fantômes de Versailles) is a claim of time travel and hauntings made by Charlotte Anne Moberly (1846–1937) and Eleanor Jourdain (1863–1924).
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]
In 1911, Charlotte Anne Moberly (1846–1937) and Eleanor Jourdain (1863–1924) published a book entitled An Adventure, under the names of "Elizabeth Morison" and "Frances Lamont". They described a visit to the Petit Trianon , a small château in the grounds of the Palace of Versailles , where they claimed they saw ghosts including Marie ...
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
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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.
Charlotte Anne Elizabeth Moberly (1846–1937) was an English academic, and first Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford. Her claimed time-travel book An Adventure , written in 1911 with fellow academic Eleanor Jourdain , became a bestseller.