The Moberly-Jourdain Trianon adventure

Two English women, C. A. E. Moberly and E. F. Jourdain, said that a strange experience befell them on 10 August 1901 in the grounds of the Petit Trianon, Versailles. They published their account in 1911 as An Adventure.

Moberly and Jourdain, two English women, spent the summer of 1901 visiting Paris. Their account puts a trip to the Palace of Versailles on 10 August 1901. The Society for Psychical Research's encyclopedia says they found the palace disappointing and chose to walk the grounds toward the Petit Trianon, the small country-house style chateau used by Queen Marie Antoinette.

By their own account they carried a Baedeker guidebook, missed the turn for the main avenue and wandered down a lane. Moberly reported seeing a woman shaking a white cloth from a window. Jourdain recalled an old deserted farmhouse with a plough outside it. In their book they also describe two men in long greyish-green coats and small three-cornered hats, whom they first took for gardeners and who pointed them onward.

The story appeared in 1911 as An Adventure. The Palace of Versailles says it had some success and encouraged the idea of ghosts at the Trianon. The women regarded the experience as paranormal.