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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]
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.
Staff at a thrift shop located in Wyoming found a police docket from 1904, which documented historical crimes. The discovery of the leather book is said to hold "a wealth of history."
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
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.
The TODAY show's Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb and Al Roker tour the Palace of Versailles during the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
The house was originally built in 1927 and redesigned in 1984 by businessman Mark Slotkin. The property boasts a pool and private tennis court, alongside a two-story guesthouse and two-car garage.