When Versailles explores its dark years under the Occupation
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A web series, to watch on youTube, and two podcasts shed light on images and audio on the key moments of this dark period, from 1930 to 1946.
After Chambord and the Louvre, it is the turn of the estate of Versailles to delve into its fate in the dark years of the Occupation. Thanks to a web series, visible on YouTube from September 3, we follow the thwarted fate of the castle, from its closure in 1939 to its reopening to the public in 1946. The mini-series, lively and documented, abounds in unpublished archive images and is carried by the voice-over of the great actor Denis Podalydès.
Divided into four ten-minute episodes, it starts in the early 1930s, when French museums were preparing for the possibility of a new war. From 1933, in Versailles, a first plan for the evacuation of the collections was designed by the assistant curator of the château, Charles Mauricheau-Beaupré. It will take place in August 1939, when the national museums will organize the evacuation of their masterpieces to places of deposit, including the castles of Chambord and Brissac. On August 25, 1939, that of Versailles closed its doors to the public, half…
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