Moberly–Jourdain Incident at the Petit Trianon

Record summary

Charlotte Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain later described an unsettling excursion at Versailles during which they believed they encountered oddly dressed figures and experienced a change in atmosphere near the Petit Trianon. Their account appeared in the 1911 book An Adventure under pseudonyms and became a classic time-slip narrative. It matters for comparison because the report combines landscape, historical imagery, memory, and retrospective interpretation. The episode’s details, chronology, and later revisions are disputed, and ordinary confusion, expectation, and reconstruction remain important explanations.