France

Following the Second World War the Palace of Versailles was the subject of considerable renovation, to repair the damage from that tragedy. Many of the most beautifully sculptured and decorated rooms had been damaged and an artist was engaged to sketch and record the remaining decoration, and particularly the ceiling mouldings, so that the original designs could be repro duced throughout the renovated building.

The artist entered a state room which he described as most beautifully furnished and hung with tapestry. The windows were draped with silks and one of the chairs in the room was described as gilded. It was not until he had left the room and was outside in the grounds that he realised he had been in that room every night for the past week and that it had always been totally bare, no tapestries, curtains or furniture.

The implication was that he had had a vision of the room’s past, a past of great splendour which, we can speculate, was either the product of his own imagination, which was concentrating on the renovation at that time, or that his focusing on the splendour of Versailles had opened his mind to receiving an image from its past.

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