Palace of Versailles Research Centre

The Centre serves as a resource to scholars and curators researching European court culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

[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.

Many of the Jussieu family were associated with France's main botanical garden, the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.

While focusing on Europe and its royal and princely courts, the geographical scope encourages comparative studies, expanding when necessary to other parts of the world.