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Overview of the Bulletin

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

The Bulletin publishes feature in-depth articles, studies, texts on methodological issues, and occasionally translations of important articles or editions of sources accompanied by a critical apparatus, commentaries 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, 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 young 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 key words used to describe the journal: Court and courtiers, Royal palaces, Monarchy, Kings and sovereigns, Modern and contemporary history, Europe.

Staff and committees

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

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

Bulletin contents

“Symposia and study days proceedings” section

This section includes:

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

  2. Proceedings of symposia and study days 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 board.

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 the complete symposium or study-days 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 or study days;

  • 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 and study days are published under the supervision and responsibility of one or more editors. The editors read and select the texts. If they deem it necessary, the editors may request evaluations from external reviewers.

“Miscellanea” section

This section publishes:

  1. articles resulting from calls for publication;

  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 an overview of spaces or places, the creation and analysis of a body of works from the château's collections or those of other institutions, the study of Versailles artists, etc. After dissertations are defended, the teaching team selects the best works to be proposed for 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 and study days that have not been published, provided that the article constitutes an autonomous and independent piece of research;

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

  6. thematic collective publications that do not come under the heading “Symposia and study days 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 placed under the supervision and responsibility of the publication 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 under 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 “Submitting an article” section.

History of submissions to the journal

The average time between submission and publication of an article is 12 weeks. However, this can sometimes be much longer depending on the response time of authors when they resubmit their article after receiving a No. 2 or No. 3 recommendation.

100 % of reviews requested from reviewers since the journal’s inception have been received.

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

Year

Spontaneous submissions

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

Submissions from symposia/study days for the Miscellanea section

Articles from dissertations (École du Louvre research group)

Translation proposals

Total received

Total rejected

Total publisheds

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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