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The Versailles Time-Slip (Moberly-Jourdain Incident, An Adventure)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Montesquieu Was No Longer Living at Versailles in 1901

Montesquieu seemed to have given up his Versailles lifestyle sometime during the 1890s and returned to live in Paris. There was no record of Montesquieu holding such a party in 1901, while there were records of other parties being held at Versailles. But it does not completely rule out the possibility he might have returned to Versailles during 1901 to hold a small gathering. Nobody even thought of this idea for six decades, I mean none of the people between 1901 and the publication of an adventure thought of it,. It wasn't even proposed until the mid 1960s so it's a late after the fact speculation that never occurred to the people most closely connected with Mont

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