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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At the shore of an inland sea
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A giant relic in Java
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50 years of the Endangered Species Act
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It’s World Migratory Bird Day
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Asteroid Day
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Nature Photography Day
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Pretty, pretty…butterfly?
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Computer Science EDU Week
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Happy Mothers Day!
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Oh, the places you’ll go
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Sanday Island and the North Sea, Scotland
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Vacuum Chamber 5 at Glenn Research Center
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A truly American monument
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Manatee Awareness Month
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Poppies in bloom
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Pasadena Chalk Festival supports local arts education
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Tree of many colors
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Talk like a pirate—or walk the plank
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World Environment Day
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Antarctica Day
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Chilling out in the Arctic
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Even nature needs a backup plan…
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Shhh, the movie is about to start
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Pi Day
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Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and the Louvre Pyramid
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My my, it s Syttende Mai
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Belgium celebrates its independence
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A dramatic view of Sicily
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Misool Island, Indonesia
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Celebrating Panama s independence