Moberly–Jourdain incident has been debunked it "retained its hold on the public imagination for half a century." Moberly–Jourdain incident The Moberly–Jourdain incident (also the Ghosts of Petit Trianon or Versailles, / "les fantômes de Versailles") is a claim of time travel and hauntings made by Charlotte Anne Moberly (1846–1937) and Eleanor Jourdain (1863–1924). In 1911, Moberly and Jourdain published a book entitled "An Adventure" under the names of "Elizabeth Morison" and "Frances Lamont". Their book describes a visit they made to the "Petit Trianon", a small "château" in the grounds of the Palace of Versailles where they claimed to have seen the
Palace of Versailles in July 1789 when she first heard the news from Paris of the storming of the Bastille and the beginning of the French Revolution. One of the most celebrated features of the park is the Hameau de la Reine, a small rustic hamlet near the Petit Trianon created for Queen Marie Antoinette between 1783 and 1785 by the royal architect Richard Mique with the help of the painter Hubert Robert. It replaced a botanical garden created by Louis XV, and consisted of twelve structures, ten of which still exist, in the style of villages in Normandy. It was designed for