The Palace of Versailles Research Centre (in French: Centre de recherche du château de Versailles - CRCV) is the first research centre established in a French palace.[1] It originated as part of a French government project called "Digital Great Versailles" (in French, "Grand Versailles Numérique") to improve public access to the Palace of Versailles.[2][3] It is located in the Jussieu pavilion, near the Grand Trianon and the Petit Trianon, on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles, which is in the Île-de-France region of France.
The Centre serves as a resource to scholars and curators researching European court culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.[1] For example, such research would seek to explore the sites and expressions of power, such as those represented at Versailles and in other European courts of the same era, and join researchers interested in this era.[4] In addition to facilitating research, it also organises symposia and training activities such as seminars and summer schools.[1] The websites of the Research Centre and of Grand Versailles Numérique are among those recommended by France's Ministry of Culture and Communication as "sites préférés."[5]
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- ^ "Grand Versailles Numérique: Research Center". Grand Versailles Numérique. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
- ^ "Versailles et l'Europe de l'ancien régime". Yvelines departement. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
- ^ "Nos sites préférés ("Our recommended sites")". France's Ministry of Culture and Communication. Archived from the original on 25 September 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2011.