That’s not a ghost in our homepage picture; it’s just a statue (at least, we think it is). But it’s easy to imagine ghosts wandering the vast gardens here at the Palace of Versailles, about 12 miles outside of Paris. One ghost in particular has a reputation for showing herself. In 1901, on a sultry August afternoon, two visitors to the Gardens of Versailles claimed to have witnessed the gardens magically transform to their 18-century grandeur. Then, they said, they encountered the ghost of Marie Antoinette, whom they spotted calmly lounging and drawing in her sketchbook. The queen of course had been guillotined a century earlier. The story was later adapted as an opera, which debuted in 1991.
Do spirits haunt the Gardens of Versailles?
Today in History
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Mother s Day
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Memorial Day
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Time for brass bands and beer
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A bison preserve
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Brown bears, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska
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The migrating monarchs of Michoacán
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Helloooooo, Innsbruck
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Celebrating sea otters
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A throng of ice and spires
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Fox kits
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European hedgehog in Sussex, England
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The National Museum of the American Indian
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Giving Tuesday
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Spring comes to the Palouse
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The Vestibule at Diocletian s Palace, Split, Croatia
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Row, row, row your gondola
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Winter solstice
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Happy New Year!
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Tom Turkey takes Manhattan
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Replica of a Viking home in Dublin National Botanic Gardens, Ireland
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The island fox’s incredible comeback
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Honoring the rangers on World Ranger Day
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Go Fly a Kite Day
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Does it swim in slow motion too?
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