What if you could go back in time? When you got back, would you tell everyone you’d done it? Would anyone believe you? In the summer of 1901, two well-to-do women went for a stroll in the gardens of Versailles and claimed to have slipped back in time. They witnessed scores of people dressed in the garb of the French Revolution and even claimed to have interacted with Marie Antoinette herself. Could it be possible they truly had stepped through the garden gate and back into history?
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Moberly, Charlotte Anne Elizabeth - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Sep 23, 2004
Jourdain, Eleanor Frances - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Sep 23, 2004
Contagious Folly: An Adventure and Its Skeptics - Terry Castle - Critical Inquiry - 1991
In the Mind of Marie… – Sasha Archibald- The Public Domain Review - Jun 6, 2023
The Versailles Time Slip - Brian Dunning - Skeptoid - Feb 7, 2012
Contagious Folly: An Adventure and Its Skeptics - Terry Castle - Critical Inquiry - 1991
The Accidental Time Travel Incident with Marie Antoinette - Francky Knapp - Jan 16, 2018
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