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Overview of the Bulletin

The Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles is a peer-reviewed online journal produced by the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles (CRCV), devoted to the publication of articles and studies relating to court societies in Europe, mainly from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.

The Bulletin publishes in-depth feature articles, studies, and texts on methodological issues. It occasionally publishes translations of significant articles, editions of sources accompanied by a critical apparatus, and commentaries on and analyses of historical and iconographic documents (archives, manuscripts, maps and plans, engravings, works of art, etc.).

Published texts may originate from calls for papers or unsolicited submissions, or arise from the activities of the Centre du Recherche du Château de Versailles (including symposia and study days, multi-year programmes, seminars and workshops).

The Bulletin welcomes contributions from early-career and established researchers in all languages and from all disciplines (history, art history, museology, literature, economics, philosophy, politics, sociology, etc.) and institutions on the following themes:

  • models of the exercise of power;

  • the structure and functioning of curial institutions;

  • customs, attitudes and people;

  • the movement of people and ideas;

  • representations of power (portraits and court scenes);

  • palaces (architecture and urban planning, decor and furnishings, collections, etc.);

  • gardens (layouts, plants, hydraulic systems, etc.);

  • ceremonies, celebrations and performances.

Main keywords used to describe the journal: court and courtiers, royal palaces, monarchy, kings and sovereigns, modern and contemporary history, Europe.

Team and committees

The Bulletin relies on an editorial committee, the scientific committee of the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles and an editorial secretary. Two-thirds of the members of the Bulletin’s committees are from outside the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles.

See the composition of the Bulletin’s team and committees.

Bulletin contents

‘Symposia, study days and seminar proceedings’ section

This section includes:

  1. A selection of proceedings from symposia, study days and seminars organized or co-organized, since 2002, by the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles.

  2. Proceedings of symposia, study days and seminars organized by other institutions. The themes of the events must be related to the fields of study and disciplines of the journal. We invite editors to submit their publication projects to the journal’s editorial committee.

Each publication functions as a journal issue and includes:

  • the year and order number of the publication;

  • the presentation of the collective publication in French and English;

  • a link to the symposium, study days or seminar programme;

  • the number of papers published out of the total number of presentations;

  • if applicable, the title of the research programme related to the symposium, study days or seminar;

  • the contributions, which may be divided into sub-sections, with an introduction and/or conclusion;

  • possibly a link to the audio/video recordings of the communications.

The proceedings of symposia, study days and seminars are the responsibility and published under the supervision of one or more editors. The editors read and select the texts. The editors may request evaluations from external reviewers, if deemed necessary.

‘Miscellanea’ section

This section publishes:

  1. articles resulting from calls for papers;

  2. articles resulting from spontaneous submissions;

  3. articles from Master I dissertations by students in the École du Louvre’s ‘Versailles’ research group (EDL), supervised by the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles. Dissertations may focus on a particular space or place in Versailles, the compilation and analysis of a corpus of works of art from the Château’s collections or from other institutions, the study of Versailles artists, etc. After dissertations are defended, the teaching team selects the best ones for proposed publication in the Bulletin under the joint supervision of the heads of the research group and the student’s scientific referee. Depending on the subject, the student may submit either an article covering a large part of the reworked dissertation, or a calibrated article focusing on a particular area or theme;

  4. individual articles from symposia, study days or seminars that have not been published, provided that the article constitutes an autonomous and independent piece of research;

  5. translations into French of published foreign-language articles deemed important for the dissemination of research related to the Bulletin’s themes, upon internal/external proposal and selection by the editorial committee;

  6. thematic collective publications that do not fall under the section ‘Symposia, study days and seminars proceedings’, such as ‘Le promeneur de Versailles’.

Articles in categories 1, 2, 3 and 4 proposed for this section are made anonymous and sent to experts for double peer-review. The thematic groups (6) are the responsibility and placed under the supervision of the editor(s).

Calls for papers

The editorial committee publishes:

  • a permanent call for papers;

  • thematic calls for papers related to the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles’s research programmes.

Calls for papers are posted on the Bulletin website in the ‘Calls for papers’ section, as well as on the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles website, the research blog ‘Le Carnet du CRCV’, social networks (X, Facebook), and various national and international mailing lists (Calenda, Association des Historiens Modernistes des Universités Françaises – AHMUF, H-France, Enfilade, H-Soz-Kult, Clio-Online, the APAHAU blog, Fabula, etc.).

Procedures for submitting and evaluating articles

For detailed information on the procedures for submitting and evaluating articles, please see the ‘Submit an article’ section.

History of submissions to the journal

The average time between submission and publication of an article is twelve weeks. However, it can sometimes be much longer depending on the time authors take to resubmit their article after receiving a No. 2 or No. 3 recommendation.

Reviews requested from reviewers since the journal’s inception have a submission rate of 100 per cent.

Summary table of article submissions since the creation of the journal:

Year

Spontaneous submissions

Submissions in response to a call for papers/a research programme

Submissions from symposia/study days/seminars for the Miscellanea section

Articles from dissertations (École du Louvre research group)

Translation proposals

Total received

Total rejected

Total published

Approval rate (%)

2008

1

0

2

0

0

3

0

3

100

2009

0

0

0

1

0

1

0

1

100

2010

3

0

2

4

0

9

2

7

78

2011

9

0

0

2

0

11

6

5

45

2012

1

1

0

2

0

4

1

3

75

2013

6

0

1

3

0

10

4

6

60

2014

3

0

0

2

1

6

2

4

67

2015

3

0

0

1

0

4

1

3

75

2016

4

6

0

0

0

10

1

9

90

2017

5

3

0

1

0

9

2

7

78

2018

3

7

2

3

0

15

6

9

60

2019

10

0

1

1

0

12

8

4

33

2020

5

0

0

0

0

5

2

3

60

2021

6

4

0

0

0

10

5

5

50

2022

3

1

0

1

0

5

3

2

40

2023

1

2

0

0

1

4

2

2

50

TOTAL

63

24

8

21

2

118

45

73

62

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