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Strange backward journey at Versailles reenacts past
Two English women, Anne Moverly and Eleanor Jourdain, once believed they stepped out of their century during a trip to Versailles. Their travel notes and letters, housed at Oxford, recount a time slip as they wandered a wooded lane toward farm buildings and encountered workers and a girl in period clothing near a cottage.
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Boden Library
Oxford
Fuzilen Webster Fawcett
Anne Moverly
St. Hugh's College
Eleanor Jourdain
Paris
Versailles
Petit Triarfon
Marie Antoiniette
Gary
Jourdais
Matt Ahbe
Liev
Qimere
Alead Gill
Denor
Wineh
SOO
Jourdain
Costa
Ube Comte de Vaudreuil