Press Release - Versailles - Château de Versailles

Marly
31 May, 1 and 2 June
Following the attachment of Marly to the
Versailles estate, the time has come for a thorough
study of this royal residence built by Louis XIV.
After a historiographic review, the symposium will
examine the estate and its water resources, its uses
and functioning, Marly as a European model and,
lastly, the research perspectives, the archaeological
diggings and the estate today.
european royal Commissions in Paris
(1650-1800)
27, 28 and 29 September
This symposium will examine the role of court
practices based on French models by studying the
commissions, i.e. for creating new art works, rather
than the purchases of collectors. Each contribution
will cover three principal angles while keeping in
mind what justified the unique reputation and
exportation of French works: the figures, the
techniques and the commercial circuits.
The Habsburgs and France
22, 23 and 24 November
To mark the hundredth anniversary of the
birth of Otto von Habsburg (who died in July
2011), this symposium will retrace the long
history linking the Habsburgs to France. Since
the 13th century, these family, diplomatic and
conflictual relations illustrate the close
connections between Vienna, Paris and
Versailles. The symposium will focus in
particular on the links between the Habsburgs
and France from the 16th to the 20th century.
dance in France and its influence (1600-1800)
New sources, new perspectives
17, 18 and 19 November
The ambition of this symposium is to unite
theory and practice. It will tackle several themes:
from Renaissance to Baroque, the turning-point
of 1700 with the dance notation system and
treatises, the evolution of dance in France in the
18th century, the performance of dance music
and the dance environment, with a particular
focus on the iconography, the costumes, the
stage sets, the daily life of dancers, etc.
The publications
In 2012
- Funerailles princières (volume 1)
- Les Mémoires de Plantavit (volume 2)- Duindam:
Vienna et Versailles, (CRVCV/FMSH,
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“Aulica” collection)
- La cour et les sciences. Essor des politiques
scientifiques dans les cours européennes aux XVIIe et
XVIIIe siècles (symposium in February 2011).
- Actes du colloque Mansart (ed. Alexandre Gady).
- Champs de bataille du grand siècle
as well as electronic publications.
Association of
european ROYAl residences
The international scientific and cultural relations of the Palace of
Versailles, apart from loans of works throughout the world, take
the form of scientific contributions to exhibitions, as well as
through the activities of the Association of European Royal
Residences (exchanges of professionals, international training
seminar, educational projects, co-production of websites and
databases, etc.).
The European Royal Residences Network, set up in 1996 on the
initiative of the Palace of Versailles in response to the stated goal
of the European Union to bring its peoples together and inform
them about their shared history, registered as a not-for-profit
association in 2001.
The Network unites over sixty palaces in
Europe, including those of the most historical
significance, in fourteen countries and managed
today by the following institutions: Stiftung
Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg,
Germany; Schloss Schönbrunn
Kultur-und Betriebsges.m.b.H., Austria; a.s.b.l.
Palais de Charles Quint, Belgium; Danske
Kongers Kronologiske saml. Rosenborg Slot,
Denmark; Patrimonio Nacional, Spain; the
Public Establishment of the National Estate of
Chambord, France; the Public Establishment of
the Palace, Museum and National Estate of
Versailles which provides the President of the
Network; Gödöllöi Királyi Kastely Kht,
Hungary; Ministero per i beni e le attività
culturali, Italy; Regione Piemonte, Italy;
Nationaal Museum Paleis Het Loo, Netherlands;
Muzeum Palac w Wilanowie, Poland;
Historic Royal Palaces, United Kingdom; Royal
Collections Kungliga Slottet, Sweden; Palácio
Nacional de Mafra, Portugal.
Alongside these institutions, the Peterhof Palace
in Russia, with which the Palace of Versailles
has a project, this year, to set up a website
presenting the voyage of Peter the Great to
Versailles in 1717.
Contact : residences.royales@chateauversailles.fr