In an academic voice, the two authors relate how they slipped into the time of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette during their visits to the Palace of Versailles.
—Michael Main
Following the directions of the two men we walked on: but the path pointed out to us seemed to lead away from where we imagined the Petit Trianon to be; and there was a feeling of depression and loneliness about the place. I began to feel as if I were walking in my sleep; the heavy dreaminess was oppressive. At last we came upon a path crossing ours, and saw in front of us a building consisting of some columns roofed in, and set back in the trees. Seated on the steps was a man with a heavy black cloak round his shoulders, and wearing a slouch hat. At that moment the eerie feeling which had begun in the garden culminated in a definite impression of something uncanny and fear-inspiring. The man slowly turned his face, which was marked by smallpox: his complexion was very dark.

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Variants

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  1. An Adventure, as by Elizabeth Morison and Frances Lamont (Macmillan, 1911).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by C. A. E. Moberly as by Elizabeth Morison
    E. F. Jourdain as by Frances Lamont
  2. second edition, with appendix and maps.
    An Adventure, as by Elizabeth Morison and Frances Lamont (Macmillan, 1913).
    3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by C. A. E. Moberly as by Elizabeth Morison
    E. F. Jourdain as by Frances Lamont
  3. third edition, with further additional material and some omissions.
    An Adventure, as by Elizabeth Morison and Frances Lamont (Guy Chapman, 1924).
    4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by C. A. E. Moberly as by Elizabeth Morison
    E. F. Jourdain as by Frances Lamont
  4. Further additional material and some omissions. Earliest edition to use the authors’s real names. We are uncertain of the byline for the initial printing of this 1931 edition, but later printings used initials and surnames..
    An Adventure by C. A. E. Moberly and E. F. Jourdain (Faber and Faber, 1931) [fourth edition].
    5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by C. A. E. Moberly
    E. F. Jourdain
  5. Earliest US edition. At least some printings used the alternate byline with first names of Anne and Eleanor..
    An Adventure, as by Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain (Coward, McCann, 1935)
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    6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by C. A. E. Moberly as by Anne Moberly
    E. F. Jourdain as by Eleanor Jourdain
  6. Restored to original text, but with the authors’s real names throughout rather than their noms de guerre..
    An Adventure by C. A. E. Moberly and E. F. Jourdain (Faber and Faber, 1955).
    7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by C. A. E. Moberly
    E. F. Jourdain
  7. alternate title and byline.
    Ghosts of the Trianon: The Complete An Adventure, as by C. A. E. Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain (Borgo Press, June 1989).
    8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by C. A. E. Moberly
    E. F. Jourdain

Translations

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  1. Italian.
    Il sogno delle regina in rosso, asby Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain (AB Editore, December 2021).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by C. A. E. Moberly
    E. F. Jourdain

Indexer Notes

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  1. Credits—We selected C. A. E. Moberly and E. F. Jourdain as the authors’ canonical names because we believe that the initial edition to use their real names (Faber and Faber, 1931) used this format.
  2. Variants and Translations—In English through 1955, we know of only the six listed variants, each of which had multiple printings. We have not yet fully indexed translations or later English editions.
  3. Classification—We don’t know whether the authors believed that they really time traveled, but they presented the work as if that were the case, so we’ve classified the book as nonfiction.