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The Ghosts of Trianon | 
 enlarge | Author: Elinor F. Jourdain
Publisher: CreateSpace
Category: Book
Buy New: $11.87
Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 745992
Media: Paperback
Pages: 124
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.3
ISBN: 1440448361
EAN: 9781440448362
ASIN: 1440448361
Publication Date: November 3, 2008
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Product Description
This is the true story of two Englishwomen getting caught up in one of the most fascinating and inexplicable "time travel" experiences ever recorded. After travelling down to the grand French palaces of Versailles, they proceed to take a walk along the various pathways and gardens outside, only to lose their way and on top of that, get lost in a time warp, literally. It takes them back in time to the palace gardens at the time of the French Revolution and to a face-to-face confrontation with Marie Antoinette, among others. No, this is not fiction, it purports to be fact. The two women, both prominent academics, give us a very convincing and staggering account of their claims. This book is their clear and thought-provoking explanation of exactly what happened to them. Were they mistaken? Was it a hoax? Was the experience real? You decide. This is a truly fascinating book, which quickly sold 10, 000 copies when it was first published. Here it is back in print again at long last.
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Did they peep through a curtain of time? November 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wow! I can't decide whether I believe this story, what a cool mystery. Either it's a hoax written by two dried up old academic spinsters trying to bring a little excitement into their lives and get attention, or they really did travel back in time somehow. Both women admitted to having a history of seeing ghosts and psychic phenomenon. I love true time travel stories, they're so rare. The concept of time travel is something I could easily develop an obsession with.
This book has whet my appetite for more of these kinds of stories.
Add to my Review March 23, 2001
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This fall (10/5, I believe) it will be one hundred years to the day that Moberly and Jourdain saw the Ghosts of Versailles. I expect to be there around then and if I get a chance to lurk around the Petit Trianon and see anything, I'll add to this review. I thought I'd point this out to anyone else planning to be in Paris at the time. Ghosts seem to like me, the chances are good. Watch for my next review on The Days of the French Revolution, another 5-star.
you can find it and you should May 18, 2000
Let me start by saying I just came home from Paris where Ipicked up this book in French at Versailles and read it late everysingle night! If you want it in English, amazon.uk will special order it. I first saw this as a movie on PBS, "Mrs. Morison's Ghosts," about 20 years ago and never forgot it. At the time I didnt know if it was fiction or nonfiction and couldn't find the book because the title was different and the authors did not use their real names for the first edition. This book, published first in 1911 and many times since, was a best seller in England and France. "les Fantomes de Trianon" or "Ghosts of the Trianon" not only includes the original story, but the painstakingly detailed research the authors did to track down and authenticate everything they had seen, their three subsequent visits to Versailles, and various analyses of their experience, which amounted to stepping across a time warp. As my version points out, mankind has conquered the speed of sound and the speed of light, so why shouldn't we someday be able to break through the barrier of time? I found both the book and the movie thrilling and thought-provoking. This story has not had the publicity it deserves.By the way, I've hung out in the gardens of Versailles on two occasions so far, and both times there were repairs in the area of the Petit Trianon, so I wasn't able to see if I could duplicate their experience. If I ever do, I'll let you all know!
Did they really see the ghost of Marie Antoinette? August 20, 1999
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
A thorough and absorbing re-examination of the curious story of two proper English ladies - Miss Moberly and Miss Jordaine - who went for a stroll one hot summer day in 1900 and came back convinced that they had traveled through time and seen Marie Antoinette. This is one of the world's great, unresolved ghost stories, and this slim volume does a very in-depth examination of exactly what these ladies may have seen and exactly how their story has been dealt with down through the decades. Thought provoking and very satisfying for the reader of true life ghost stories. I literally searched for this book for years and finally finding it was well worth my long, long anticipation. Highly recommended.
An evocation of Louis XVI's Versailles which nobody knew January 25, 1999
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
A magical walk in the castle's park, where two English spinsters, schoolmistresses, discovered an incredible view of what Versailles was before the French Revolution. Amazingly authentic and truthful. I loved it and I think everyone who loves France should read it, if you can find it!
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