Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
In 1911, a book called The Adventure was published by Elizabeth Morison and Frances Lamont. It claimed to detail their experiences time traveling while visiting the Versailles palace and grounds 10 years previously. The book was widely popular – it was reprinted multiple times and sold over 10,000 copies in 5 different editions.
The book also had some detractors who claimed it was exaggerated – and that was before the third edition was published under the authors’ real names, Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain. The two were unmarried, childless women beyond ‘appropriate’ age (some sources say they may have lived together), and when their real names came out, a certain amount of personal nastiness arose as well.
But just what did the women claim to see during their holiday?
In short, they said they glimpsed Marie Antoinette sitting at Petit Trianon during her last moments of peace before being informed the mob had come to take her and her family into custody for the crime of being royal.
The two were sitting in the Hall of Mirrors after an official tour when Charlotte Moberly suggested they walk over to see the Petit Trianon. They got lost trying to find it and both began then to feel as though something was “off.” When they stopped to ask directions, they found two men dressed in greenish jackets…
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