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The Ghosts of Versailles Part 2

The Ghosts of Versailles Part 2

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In part 2 of our series on the Ghosts of Versailles, we’re
looking into what transpired in the years following the initial
incident. Charlotte Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain conducted
intense research to figure out who or what they may have been
interacting with on August 10th, 1901. That research led them,
among many other things, to discover there was an insurrection on
that exact day in 1792, 71 years earlier to the day. The
Tuileries Place is not in Versailles but in Paris, 11 miles away.
Revolutionaries with weapons wanted the Monarchy abolished. They
waged an intense attack on the palace that Louis XVI and Marie
Antoinette were now living in on lockdown. On that day, 650 of
the Swiss Guard were massacred by Jacobins and a group known as
the Paris Commune. Once the Swiss Guard ran out of ammunition,
they were slaughtered, and their bodies dismembered and paraded
about the palace grounds. King Louis and Marie Antoinette had
moved to a safer location in the Legislative Assembly Building.
Moberly and Jourdain wondered if they might have somehow
intersected with what no doubt would have been Marie Antoinette’s
fearful and saddened state of mind that day. Is it possible she
was reminiscing about happier times at her favorite place in the
world, Le Petit Trianon? Could Moberly and Jourdain have somehow
crossed paths with Antoinette's ghostly memories of happiness on
the anniversary of the day that would mark the beginning of the
end, not only for the King and herself but the Monarchy, too?
We’ll discuss that and our theories about what may have happened
and how the Ghosts of Versailles evolved into the story it is
today.

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