"Visitors to Versailles" Database is online
The "Visitors to Versailles" database is part of the research programme “Court identities and the myth of Versailles in Europe: perception, adherence and rejection (18th-19th centuries)”, led by the Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, and directed by Gérard Sabatier.
The purpose of this tool is to draw up a list of the personal accounts of foreign visitors to the domain, palace and court of Versailles, in order to examine how the “Versailles myth” was disseminated throughout Europe. The period in question will extend from the reign of Louis XIV to the end of the 19th century, in order to establish how opinions about this place evolved, from the moment it established itself as the centre of royal power to when it became a testimony to a monarchical past.
The corpus brings together a variety of texts: memoires, travel accounts, letters and even diaries, written by authors of diverse social and geographical origins. To make these more easily accessible, several thematic filters have been put in place, such as the period of the trip, places visited, people encountered and the occasions at court when the observations were made.
Flavie Leroux
flavie.leroux@chateauversailles.fr
Centre de recherche du château de Versailles
+331.30.83.74.94