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Publisher: CreateSpace
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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| Morberley & Jourdain, GHOSTS OF THE TRIANON |
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Dianne Hunter's Review
Two British women recount their separate experiences of a time warp during an initial visit as tourists to Versailles in August 1901, and a follow-up visit by one of them the following January: Moberley saw Marie Antoinette sketching on the Trianon lawn; Jourdain saw two women passing a jug between them on the steps outside the door of a stone cottage; both women saw several male members of the Trianon staff from 1783 and 1789, and Jourdain heard 18th-century music, and a crowd of people passing in rustling dresses. The 18th-century men spoke to the two British women, who subsequently undertook scholarly research that indicated to them that as tourists they had entered into Marie Antoinette's mind while she was suffering in the Revolutionary Hall of Assembly in Paris and remembering back to happier days at the Trianon. They explain why what they saw could not have been masqueraders, and answer questions that were posed to them about their adventure between the time it first happened, and 1910, when they published their story.
There is an interesting contrast in reading this between its orderly, rational tone and the improbable conclusion to which the reasoning leads.
MISS MORISON'S GHOSTS, a (1981) film made for UK TV, gives the background of Moberley & Jourdain as players in the struggle to get St. Hugh's College for women recognized as a legitimate part of Oxford University. Moberley was principal of the women's college, Jourdain was vice principal in the process of taking over the role "Miss Morison" [i.e. Moberley (played by Wendy Hiller)] did not want to relinquish. This film emphasizes class and status rivalries, and gives the impression that Moberley undermined Jourdain by involving her in dubious claims and a scandalous dispute with psychical researchers. In order to further the cause of women's education at Oxford, Moberley mentions late in the game the possibility that she and Jourdain may have seen not ghosts but masqueraders at a party given by an "exquisite" who lived near the Trianon. In this film, Jourdain gets forced out as principal as St. Hugh's gains formal recognition by Oxford.
The psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan mentions the Moberley & Jourdain case. The literary critic Terry Castle interprets their adventure as a folie-a-deux expressing unconscious lesbianism.
The idea of transmission of trauma across time seems to inhere in this story.
Moberley, being deposed as principal of St. Hugh's, may have vaguely identified with the idea of Marie Antoinette's situation in 1789. Jourdain did not see Marie Antoinette. The idea of entering into the Queen's memory seems to come from Moberley in the book.
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| parallel universes |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Hugh Everett III was an American physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics, which he called his "relative state" formulation.
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1. YouTube - Michio Kaku: Time Travel, Parallel Universes, and Reality
Fascinating interview with Michio Kaku.Speaking about his new book "Physics of the Impossible," Dr. Kaku ... time travel parallel universes reality ...
Michio Kaku on the video quotes Steven Hawking as saying
"I do not believe in time travel because I have never been visited by travellers from the future".
Kaku says ;"such visitors may be round us but are invisible.
Personal comment: Marie Antoinette's fate and that of Archimedes of Syracuse approximates to a Nietzchean Law of Eternal Recurrence.
What a shame Archimedes or the Queen will never experience our technology.
I have read much about Jacques Vallee computer scientist and astrophysicist and his UFO writings. Vallee gives a detailed account of the Fatima 1917 UFO(?) incident in his Book "Dimensions".
Personally, I think UFOs come from a parallel universe which we call Heaven
After all what do you expect to hire when you get there - a Roman chariot taxi service or a Roadable aircraft one?
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| Reality and Drama |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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For anyone truly interested in this incident this book is a must-have. The detailed presentation of the actual events accompanied by hand-drawn maps and diagrams is essential for any serious consideration of what may have occured. Especially if one is relying on the turbid melodrama of the televised production.
For those depressed or disheartened by it's tragic end, rest assured both ladies lived to ripe old ages; both remained as heads of schools at Oxford and received honors and respect - not ridicule - during their lives. For a factual treatment this book is irreplaceable.
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| Victorian tourist time travellers |
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Imagine two women strolling through the gardens of the palace of Versailles and losing their way along one of the paths and stepping back in time through some weird and ghostly time warp. This book is their explanation of what happened and what they saw. To believe or not believe: that is the question.
Either it's an incredibly elaborate hoax, or they were mistaken and there's a perfectly natural explanation for it all and the people and things they saw weren't ghostly at all, OR they really did walk back in time and the people and things they encountered were from Marie Antoinette's world shortly before she was arrested by the encroaching mob from Paris, and later tried and beheaded. The two women to whom this extraordinary episode happened wrote that they believed that they had entered, if not exactly back in time, then at least back into Marie Antoinette's mind and memory of this time which was the last few moments before her whole world fell apart.
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| Not what I expected. |
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Very disappointing. Too drawn out and some parts were in french . Probably interesting to history students but not worth buying unless one plans on traveling to Versailles.
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