Activities in 2024

Research

Research Programmes

• Networks and sociability at the court of France, 17^th-18^th centuries

• The representation of history in the collections of the Museum of the Palace of Versailles

• Châteaux and museums in Europe: an artistic heritage in the face of war (19^th-20^th centuries)

• ÉcoNoble – The nobility living with the king: economy of curial cohabitation (1682-1789)

Scientific projects ans applied research

• Letters de Marie-Antoinette (LMA)

• Project IMMERSAILLES, socio-spatial study of the accommodation at the Palace of Versailles during the Ancien Regime

• Creation and online publication of a historic repository of France under the Ancien Régime

• Project VERSPERA

Academic courses and training 2023-2024

• Research seminar “Versailles : art et histoire” for students of the Centre de recherche’s partners (in French)

• Masters seminar “The Sorbonne at Versailles” and Preparatory class seminar for the heritage competition “Versailles: a great museum and heritage site” from the Faculté des lettres de Sorbonne Université

• “Versailles Research Group” and Thematic Seminar “Versailles: museographic and cultural choices for a major heritage site”, seminar “Audencia” (in French), seminar “Decorative Arts Seminar (Bard Graduate Center)” (in French) and seminar “Summer School” (in French) from the École du Louvre

• Master’s seminars “Versailles: a history in perspective” (DYPAC laboratory) and “Versailles and the 19^th century” (CHCSC laboratory) from the université of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

• University diploma “Expertise of works of art” from Panthéon-Assas université

In addition to these educational and training activities organised on a regular basis by the Centre de recherche, a number of whole-day or part-day training sessions are being hosted at the request of our partners.

Symposia, study days and conferences in 2024 (in french)

• Symposium “Sport et politiques publiques” (11 January, château de Versailles)

• International symposium “Ani-maux. Souffrances animales, remèdes humains, Antiquité, Moyen Âge, Époque moderne” (14 March, Versailles)

• Study day “Saint-Simon et la question religieuse : écrire les affaires du temps” (16 March, château de Versailles)

• Study day “Les soieries impériales, nouveaux regards franco-européens” (14 June, château de Versailles)

• International symposium “L’attrait de la littérature étrangère : un goût aristocratique ? Le rôle des princes et des cours en tant que promoteurs des traductions d’une langue vernaculaire à une autre (XVe-XVIIIe siècles)” (9-10 October, château de Versailles)

• Study day “Georges Huisman” (12 November, château de Versailles)

• International symposium “Crises et communication dans la période de bouleversements (1785-1820)” (28-29 November, château de Versailles)

Consult our calls for papers.

Publications

• Our publications in preparation

• Our calls for publication

• List of upcoming publications that we support

Databases

• Feeding data into our online databases

• Development of our new databases

• Feeding data into our digitised corpora