Twenty Years of Research at Versailles
Founded in 2006, the Palace of Versailles Research Centre celebrates its twentieth anniversary in2026. While continuing its research programmes, publications and training courses, the Centre is launching several initiatives to make historical sources easier to access and to renew its digital tools. These include the new "Immersailles" portal, the online release of garden plans, new datasets, data visualisation and mapping websites, and a digital edition of Marie Antoinette’s correspondence. A scholarly event will round off the anniversary year.
Missions and Research Areas
The goal of the Palace of Versailles Research Centre (CRCV) is research and training in the locations and expressions of power as they are represented at Versailles and in Europe, primarily in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The civilisation of the court is considered in all its aspects, from how power was exercised to the structure and operation of court institutions via customs and mentalities, the circulation of people and ideas, the development of the arts and sciences, palace and garden design and the significance of ceremonies, feasts and entertainments.
Like its subjects, research at CRCV aims to be multiple: pure and comparative, naturally, but also documentary, to supply material for our various productions, and applied, resulting in concrete achievements.
Institutional website
Presentation of CRCV: team, research programmes, publications, partners.
CRCV resources portal (in french)
Library of links: image library and bibliographic, biographical and thematic databases.
CRCV notebook (in french)
CRCV news: conferences, seminars and publications.
CRCV bulletin
Electronic journal: proceedings and audio transmissions of conferences, scientific articles on court life in the modern period.
